Re: [Changeset]; Re: feature request / Matlab incompatability

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:18 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 19-Aug-2008, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | Peter L. Søndergaard wrote:
> | > Hi,
> | >
> | > I develop the ltfat toolbox available at http://ltfat.sourceforge.net. I
> | > try to keep the toolbox working equally well in Octave and Matlab.
> | >
> | > The toolbox is organized in subdirectories, each containing a
> | > "Contents.m" file.
> | >
> | > In Matlab the user can type "help gabor" and this will display the
> | > Contents.m file in the "gabor" directory. This does not work in Octave.
> | >
> | > In Octave the user has to change the directory to the "gabor" directory
> | > and then type "help Contents" to get the same listing.
> | >
> | > Other third-party toolboxes like WaveLab use the same system for
> | > documentation and suffer from the same problem in Octave.
> | >
> | > So I humbly ask if it is possible to add this functionality to the
> | > "help" command.
> | >
> | > Cheers,
> | >
> | > Peter.
> | >
> | What about something like the attached?
>
> I applied it with a minor change to try to ensure that only full
> directory components are matched (i.e., don't find .../audio when
> searching for "io").
>

I transplanted this patch to 3.0.x

regards


-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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