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Re: Writing 'help' functions as m-files


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: Writing 'help' functions as m-files
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:48:03 -0500

On 11-Feb-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| Does that work when the header span several lines? Typing 'help
| makeinfo'  (as an example) gives me
| 
|  -- Function File: [RETVAL, STATUS] = makeinfo (TEXT, OUTPUT_TYPE)
|  -- Function File: [RETVAL, STATUS] = makeinfo (TEXT, OUTPUT_TYPE,
|           SEE_ALSO)
|      Run `makeinfo' on a given text.
| 
| plus some more. From what you described I would assume that the first
| help sentence would be
| 
|           SEE_ALSO)
|      Run `makeinfo' on a given text.
| 
| Which isn't really what we want.

How about using --fill-column=NUM with a large value of NUM?  We don't
need the result to fit in any particular width screen.  Something like
1024 for NUM should be big enough.  I checked in a change.

jwe



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