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

[David Bateman]

Keith Goodman wrote:

> On 6/5/05, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > Try the attached version, this time gzipped
> > as I seem to be sending this file rather a lot recently...
> >    
>
> It works most of the time. But I did manage to get an out of memory error.
>
> $ octave
> Octave 2.9.3 Forge 20041116
>  
>
> > > lookfor inverse
> > >      
> [I hit Control-C. It works. But is there any way to prevent it from
> spitting out the warnings below?]
> warning: help: Texinfo formatting filter exited abnormally
> warning: help: raw Texinfo source of help text follows...
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
>  

I don't know why that happens. At the moment I store all of the data and 
print it at the end, to allow return args. I suppose I can partially fix 
the problem wen then is not return args by printing the matchs as they 
happen and not storing them. To think about..

>  
>
> > > lookfor matlab
> > >      
> casesen             Provided for compatibility with Matlab, but does nothing.
> error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt
>  
>
>
> I noticed that the -all flag can come before or after the search
> string. Matlab documents it by putting the -all flag after the search
> string, so
>
> Command: lookfor STR -all
>
> instead of 
>
> Command: lookfor -all STR
>
> But that doesn't make sense (to me), unless you're into that whole
> compatibility thing.
>
>  
This is why I changed the order in the documentation but allowed the 
matlab compatiable ordering... So we get compatiability and something a 
bit more sensible...

Regards
David

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