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Re: Kind of a lookfor function (moved from help list)
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Keith Goodman |
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Re: Kind of a lookfor function (moved from help list) |
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Tue, 31 May 2005 06:51:43 -0700 |
OK. I now remember what "proof-of-concept" means. Sorry for the bug report.
On 5/31/05, Keith Goodman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>