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The best feature I loved about TurboPascal was built-in help.

Press Ctrl+F1 on any function name, and you are instantly taken to a very good help page, often with a working code snippet example!!!

I can't overstate how insanely great it was, especially in pre-stackoverflow days!



You could hack the code of your favourite IDE (e.g. add a macro, modify the source) to google whatever is currently selected (e.g. WriteLn) by you with an additional qualifier

  site:stackoverflow.com
for instance

  WriteLn site:stackoverflow.com
So it would open up the top result of Google's SERP, i.e.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/617654/how-does-writeln-...


There key difference with this approach is that in TP you had a very good help page, and here you get only the top result. Big difference!


And pray that that the answers on Stackoverflow are relevant.


I like using zeal-at-point in emacs, it is quite useful. https://github.com/jinzhu/zeal-at-point




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