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Re: How to trim the output of help?


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: How to trim the output of help?
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:13:45 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 10:57:05 -0700, rocketsound wrote:
> Hej! Currently, help always appends the message
> 
> 
> > Additional help for built-in functions and operators is
> > available in the online version of the manual.  Use the command
> > 'doc 
> > <topic>
> > ' to search the manual index.
> > 
> > Help and information about Octave is also available on the WWW
> > at http://www.octave.org and via the address@hidden
> > mailing list.
> 
> at the end of its output. Is there a flag or something that prevents help
> from printing this additional hint?

Look at `help suppress_verbose_help_message`. Or use help as a function
instead of a command:

  >> s = help ("ls")

-- 
mike



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