Re: Kind of a lookfor function

[Keith Goodman]

On 5/30/05, avraham <address@hidden> wrote:
> The ultimate in confort would be to make it an octave command,
> using the mark_as_command option, but I don't know how to do it.
> In fact, I don't know if this is possible at all. I would be glad
> if someone would explain how it could be done, or why it can't.

I like your hack.

function lookfor(target)
disp(system(["Olookfor " target]));

I added the following to my ~/.octaverc:

mark_as_command lookfor

Going outside of Octave means we'll never get this function back into
Octave (as in part of an Octave release). If we can isolate the
functionality that Octave doesn't provide (getting the output of help)
and write the rest in Octave code, then maybe someone would replace
the missing part with an Octave equivalent. Then we would increase of
chances of adding lookfor to Octave

A bonus feature would be a search of the help text. Now that you've
given us a list of the function names, that shouldn't be hard. But it
might be slow.

Here are some examples of Avraham's lookfor function:

>> lookfor matlab
warn_matlab_incompatible

>> lookfor Matlab
warn_matlab_incompatible

>> lookfor plot
gsplot
gplot
replot
gnuplot_command_end
automatic_replot
gnuplot_command_plot
gnuplot_command_replot
gnuplot_command_splot
gnuplot_command_title
gnuplot_command_using
gnuplot_command_with
gnuplot_has_frames
gnuplot_binary
gnuplot_command_axes
__gnuplot_set__
__gnuplot_show__
__gnuplot_raw__
__gnuplot_set__
__gnuplot_show__
clearplot
closeplot
scatterplot.m
auplot.m
idplot.m
irsa_plotdft.m
freqs_plot.m
fplot.m
plot3.m
boxplot.m
normplot.m
splot.m
freqz_plot.m
mplot.m
multiplot.m
__errplot__.m
oneplot.m
plot.m
subplot.m
plot_border.m
qcoordinate_plot.m
qqplot.m
ppplot.m

>> lookfor arg
all_va_args
varargin
varargout
argv
builtin:arg
nargin
nargout
arg
argnames
builtin:arg
va_arg
farg.oct
nargchk.m

>> lookfor log
builtin:log
builtin:log10
islogical
log
log10
builtin:log
builtin:log10
Log.oct
flog.oct
flog10.oct
log_1plusx.oct
log_1plusx_mx.oct
log_erfc.oct
glog.oct
vrml_parallelogram.m
logm.m
logical.m
logspace.m
loglog.m
loglogerr.m
semilogx.m
semilogxerr.m
semilogy.m
semilogyerr.m
log2.m
logistic_rnd.m
lognormal_cdf.m
lognormal_inv.m
lognormal_pdf.m
lognormal_rnd.m
logistic_cdf.m
logistic_inv.m
logistic_pdf.m
cloglog.m
logit.m
logistic_regression.m
logistic_regression_derivatives.m
logistic_regression_likelihood.m



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