[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54053] "doc persistent" should work in GUI as it does in CLI

[Rik]

Update of bug #54053 (project octave):

                 Summary: keywords should have cindex entries so "doc KEYWORD"
works => "doc persistent" should work in GUI as it does in CLI

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Follow-up Comment #6:

doc and help are different.  help brings up the documentation for a function. 
doc brings up the manual where a cross-reference has been set (XREF).  It just
so happens that for functions we put an XREF in the manual so that 'doc ls'
will take the reader to the point in the manual where the help text for that
function exists.


'doc else' takes the reader to the description of the if statement, which is
appropriate.  'help else' produces just a minimal string about 'else'.

The only problem I see is that 'doc' in the GUI is behaving differently then
in the CLI.  'doc persistent' or 'doc "figure properties" should work.  Note
that there is also a search facility in the documentation tab in the GUI.  The
search tab was the subject of bug reports and has been modified to work
correctly.  One can type "figure properties" (without double quotes) in to the
search field and have it find the correct cross-reference.

Re-titling report to reflect this issue.

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