Re: Kind of a lookfor function (moved from help list)

[Keith Goodman]

On 5/30/05, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> See the attached for a proof-of-concept of what I think is the right way
> of doing this. This is much better than treating the issue at compile
> time. There are several issues with this current implementation

Very nice. And very useful.

Would it be a big change to allow searchs without quotation marks?

lookfor inverse

instead of 

lookfor "inverse"

I hit an error (memory exhausted). (Sorry that the examples below
don't keep your nice formatting.)

octave:1> lookfor "inverse"
acos                 Compute the inverse cosine of each element of X
acosh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic cosine of each element of X
asin                 Compute the inverse sine of each element of X
asinh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic sine of each element of X
atan                 Compute the inverse tangent of each element of X
atanh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic tangent of each element of X
ipermute             The inverse of the `permute' function
sinh                 Compute the inverse hyperbolic sine of each element of X
octave:2> lookfor "inv"
error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt
PS4                  If Octave is invoked with the `--echo-commands'
option, the value
acos                 Compute the inverse cosine of each element of X
acosh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic cosine of each element of X
argv                 The command line arguments passed to Octave are
available in this
asin                 Compute the inverse sine of each element of X
asinh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic sine of each element of X
atan                 Compute the inverse tangent of each element of X
atanh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic tangent of each element of X
cell                 Create a new cell array object
echo                 Control whether commands are displayed as they are executed
edit_history         If invoked with no arguments, `edit_history'
allows you to edit the
erf                  Computes the error function,
erfc                 Computes the complementary error function, `1 - erf (Z)'
eye                  Return an identity matrix
format               Control the format of the output produced by
`disp' and Octave's
help                 Octave's `help' command can be used to print
brief usage-style
history              If invoked with no arguments, `history' displays
a list of commands
ipermute             The inverse of the `permute' function
keyboard             This function is normally used for simple debugging
load                 Load the named variables from the file FILE
pause                Suspend the execution of the program