[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37320] Documentation 'which' doesn't work on variables

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #37320 (project octave):

I have given a try to solve this issue, see attached patch. 
In order to find if a symbol exist as a variable, we need to have access to
the caller variable scope. I rewrote which as a builtin DEFUN (__wich__ in
help.cc becomes which) so that the function is run in the caller scope. 

I know that the policy is to have as much functions defined in .m files as
possible, but I couldn't find another way to have access to the callers
workspace (plus most part of the job is already done in __which__).

The patch is not complete as it makes the build process fail whith the
following error


...
Making all in scripts
...
make[2]: *** No rule to make target « help/which.m » 



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