Yeah, but the compiler is one thing, the IDE is another.
With the apparently limitied resources they (MeLabs) have they need to (IMO of course) focus on the compiler, obviously and then EITHER on the MCSP or MPLAB(X). At this point neither really does the job properly. MCSP is easy and straight forward (and it's been what I've been using since it was made available) but it lacks hardware level debugging and some nice to have editor features and it's crashing all the time which really sucks. MPASMX is vastly a more complicated beast and although PBP is supposed to work with it it's a bitch to setup and it's not fully integrated with the IDE (syntax highlighting). But it does support hardware level debugging but that too is not 100% there since MPLAB apparently doesn't know about PBP's 16 and 32 bit variables - or so I've understood.

Anyway, yes, updating the online help in MCSP would seem like an easy thing to do or get done but really, it's not like current documentation isn't available - it's all in the manual after all.

/Henrik.