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Is there some tool that can allow me to view an installed DocSet as something like a manpage? Maybe something along the lines of ri in ruby, godoc in Go, etc? I do most of my Objective-C coding in vim+Terminal and would like to be able to access and search the API docs from the terminal as well.

I've searched a good bit here on SO and have also seen a few 3p tools (AppleDocs seems nice, but appears geared for converting to DocSet, not from it) that are in the neighborhood, but nothing that I can find is set up to let me view from a shell.

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Try Dash. It's a GUI, but much more lightweight than opening Xcode just to use the organizer. It supports documentation searches from the command line using a custom URL scheme.