Re: Kind of a lookfor function

[Keith Goodman]

On 5/30/05, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> within octave would be more problematic. The reason is that internal to
> octave reading the help will force the function to be loaded, so this
> will be slow, and it will fill the memory with functions that are loaded
> but not used.

What would be the right way to do this (even if it's not worth doing)?

Could a separate file with all the help texts be created when Octave
is compiled? That would be easy to search. I wonder how large the file
would be.

Alternatively a database could be created at compile time.



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