Re: How to remove the redundant print when use help()?

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
>> Or upgrade to a recent version of Octave. The latest stable release is
>> 3.6.2 and the help function returns the help text as a string and the
>> solution I outlined will work.
>
> I'm not able to upgrade to 3.6.2 yet. But I have upgrade it to 3.4.0.
> "deblank(help('help'))" works, but "deblank(help())" does not. Would
> you please check the latter one and see if works on 3.6.2 so that I
> can decide whether I need to upgrade to 3.6.2? Thanks!

You are right, help() does not return a string the same way that
help(func) does, even in the current development sources.

If you would like Octave to support this usage of help(), please report it:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=octave

-- 
mike