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Re: Adding info


From: Søren Hauberg
Subject: Re: Adding info
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 20:14:26 +0200
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Ok! I guess too much documentation is a rather rare problem :-)

/Søren

John W. Eaton wrote:
On  6-May-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| Some of the functions I write have rather long "help sections", by which | I mean the text I see when I type "help my_function". So, is it possible | to create the an info file for my functions? I mean, can I create a | longer text that I'll only see if i type "help -i my_function"?

Not at present.

For what you want to work, we would need to modify Octave's help
function to look in the indices of a series of Info files (the main
Octave manual plus any installed by users in some list of directories)
and somehow display all matches or allow the user to select the
appropriate match from a list (assuming more than one match is found).

Perhaps this can happend when we have real "packages" for Octave, as
that would seem to be the appropriate time to define where these extra
files should be installed and how the help command should handle them.

jwe



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