Re: Kind of a lookfor function

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-May-2005, Keith Goodman wrote:

| 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.

Yes, it would be easy to search, but how would it be extensible?
Remember that people are allowed to add additional functions as .m or
.oct files.  Should there be one database in each directory in the
LOADPATH?

| I wonder how large the file would be.

Not terribly large.

Maybe it would be better to discuss things like this on the
maintainers list?

jwe



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