Re: help issues with symbolic package?

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Colin B. Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:

On 11/18/2016 7:32 AM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:

 >> pkg load symbolic

 >> help limit
error: help: 'limit' not found

You want "help @sym/limit".  (limit is method of the class sym).

ok, I had tried help sym/limit (which works in matlab) and help symbolic/limit, thinking maybe it had to match the package name. and edit sym/limit worked to open it so I could actually find the help text.  didn't realize the @ was necessary. Is there a way for that help error to be more, er, helpful? I consider myself not-quite-a-complete-neophyte in navigating octave and it obviously stumped me.

Nick j.