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Re: Kind of a lookfor function (moved from help list)


From: Keith Goodman
Subject: Re: Kind of a lookfor function (moved from help list)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 06:51:43 -0700

OK. I now remember what "proof-of-concept" means. Sorry for the bug report.

On 5/31/05, Keith Goodman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 5/30/05, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > See the attached for a proof-of-concept of what I think is the right way
> > of doing this. This is much better than treating the issue at compile
> > time. There are several issues with this current implementation
> 
> Very nice. And very useful.
> 
> Would it be a big change to allow searchs without quotation marks?
> 
> lookfor inverse
> 
> instead of
> 
> lookfor "inverse"
> 
> I hit an error (memory exhausted). (Sorry that the examples below
> don't keep your nice formatting.)
> 
> octave:1> lookfor "inverse"
> acos                 Compute the inverse cosine of each element of X
> acosh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic cosine of each element of 
> X
> asin                 Compute the inverse sine of each element of X
> asinh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic sine of each element of X
> atan                 Compute the inverse tangent of each element of X
> atanh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic tangent of each element 
> of X
> ipermute             The inverse of the `permute' function
> sinh                 Compute the inverse hyperbolic sine of each element of X
> octave:2> lookfor "inv"
> error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt
> PS4                  If Octave is invoked with the `--echo-commands'
> option, the value
> acos                 Compute the inverse cosine of each element of X
> acosh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic cosine of each element of 
> X
> argv                 The command line arguments passed to Octave are
> available in this
> asin                 Compute the inverse sine of each element of X
> asinh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic sine of each element of X
> atan                 Compute the inverse tangent of each element of X
> atanh                Compute the inverse hyperbolic tangent of each element 
> of X
> cell                 Create a new cell array object
> echo                 Control whether commands are displayed as they are 
> executed
> edit_history         If invoked with no arguments, `edit_history'
> allows you to edit the
> erf                  Computes the error function,
> erfc                 Computes the complementary error function, `1 - erf (Z)'
> eye                  Return an identity matrix
> format               Control the format of the output produced by
> `disp' and Octave's
> help                 Octave's `help' command can be used to print
> brief usage-style
> history              If invoked with no arguments, `history' displays
> a list of commands
> ipermute             The inverse of the `permute' function
> keyboard             This function is normally used for simple debugging
> load                 Load the named variables from the file FILE
> pause                Suspend the execution of the program
>



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