Re: mex function online help text

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Nov-2010, Luca Citi wrote:

| I think Dan expects octave to read the documentation form the m file because
| this is what matlab does. I found this thread for the same reason.
| Do you think it is possible to implement the same in octave?
| Octave should look for the documentation the way it does now but, in case no
| documentation is found for the mex file, also look for the shadowed m file.
| The help could warn the user about this fact with a message like:
| `myfun' is a function from the file `myfun.mex'
| which is undocumented, the following help comes form the shadowed file 
`myfun.m'

There is no way to put help text in a .mex file like there is for a
.oct file.

The current development version of Octave will find the help text for
a .mex function if it is in a separate .m file.

jwe