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From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
default help text |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:05:26 -0500 |
On 10-Feb-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| tir, 10 02 2009 kl. 17:16 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
|
| > * I noticed that help function now prints a list of all functions
| > together instead of grouping them by directory. Is that
| > intentional? I thought the previous output format was more
| > helpful. What do others think?
|
| Hmm, I thought I actually fixed that, but apparently I didn't.
| Personally, I would actually prefer neither of the two options. I think
| just typing 'help' provides waay too much output. I think it would be
| better to simply print something like (very much written off the top of
| my head):
|
| This is the GNU Octave prompt.
|
| To run a script saved in the file 'myscript.m', type
|
| myscript
|
| and press ENTER.
|
| To get help with individual commands and functions type
|
| help name
|
| where you should replace 'name' with the name of the command or
| function you would like to learn more about.
|
| For a more detailed introduction to GNU Octave, please consult the
| manual. To read this from the prompt type
|
| doc
|
| Enjoy GNU Octave! If you have questions, feel free to join the GNU
| Octave community. See http://www.octave.org for details.
|
| Or something like that.
I think this is worth changing, and your text is a good start.
Does anyone else have comments about this?
jwe
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