I used Netbeans for Java and now I installed the C/C++ plugin. Everything (compiling, hints, my inline documentation) works just fine. But the native function documentation just doesn't work. When I click the scanf() functin, I see this in the Documentation window:
Function int scanf(const char*, ...)
No documentation found.
And that's quite frustrating. I'm on Windows 7 if that helps in any way. How can I get the documentation I can see on - for example - Netbeans on Gentoo on PCs on my Uni? I'm pretty sure Netbeans isn't getting firewalled (I assume it's an online documentation) since updating and downloading plugins works.
Optionally, can I somehow use an offline version of that documentation?
NOTE: I'm assuming that you have installed cygwin to get C/C++
Netbeans looks up the documentation for functions and such using the 'man' pages through the man command -- if you are familiar with linux systems, it's just opens manual/guides for programs, commands and other useful stuff in order to explain how it's used to users.
Solution
So the issue is that you are missing the those man pages that you would needed to install from cygwin. I believe you are be missing this
man-pages-posix
Search for it and install it when you run the setup for cygwin.
After installing it, Apart from the posix manual, I also got 'manuals' for functions like scanf(..) and atoi(..) and the rest of the C standard library.
That should solve it. I did this and now i have documentation for those functions. Ty for this question.