Re: lookfor fails

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, 11:30 Michel, <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

    The lookfor command with Matlab is useful to find quickly a function.
With Octave, sometime, it runs, sometime, it takes a lot of time to deliver
an answer, sometime, it fails ...see example below. Goal is to find a
function which is relation with Von Mises distribution.

lookfor mises
C:\Users\mrixain\AppData\Local\Temp\octave-help-cwAmzA:126: superfluous
argument to @end ifinfo:      Copyright (c) 2009-2015, Dirk Schmidt
<fs@@dirk-schmidt.
net>      (possibly involving @seealso)
C:\Users\mrixain\AppData\Local\Temp\octave-help-ckXlU0:126: superfluous
argument to @end ifinfo:      Copyright (c) 2009-2015, Dirk Schmidt
<fs@@dirk-schmidt.
net>      (possibly involving @seealso)
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/utf8_heavy.pl line
123.
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/utf8_heavy.pl line
123.
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/utf8_heavy.pl line
123.
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/utf8_heavy.pl line
123.
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/utf8_heavy.pl line
123.
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/utf8_heavy.pl line
123.

Regards,

Michel

Unfortunately, this is a known bug #49839 [1], which does not seem to be resolved yet.

HTH,

Kai

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=49839