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Re: Contributing to Octave help function.
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Contributing to Octave help function. |
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Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:14:31 -0400 |
On Jul 19, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Sergey Dudoladov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been using Octave for quite a while, and now I would like to
> contribute some code to the project.
> I want to start with an easy mini-contribution, just to understand how
> things work.
>
> My first suggestion is to improve 'help' function by adding a 'dot' option
> to it.
> MIT OCW Course on Matlab mentions that in Matlab command ' help . ' , that
> is help + dot, lists a detailed list of operators (logical, relational etc.)
> See the 11th slide of the lecture titled "Visualization and programming".
>
> I use Octave version 3.6.1 , and it responds to this command with an error
> message. So, I want to add this functionality.
>
> Any feedback is welcome. In particular, I have two questions
> 1) Is it possible to do it using m-scripts only? I currently don't know C
> or C++.
> 2) Is there any detailed description of a code contribution workflow (
> besides contributors guide ) I can follow ?
> I interested in things like "When and how often to build sources ?",
> "What things should be changed in configuration files when I change a
> function?" etc.
You can start with the info below.
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Contributing-Guidelines.html#Contributing-Guidelines
The help() function is an m-file, so it should be possible to make this change
using m-files only.
Ben
- Contributing to Octave help function., Sergey Dudoladov, 2012/07/19
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function.,
Ben Abbott <=
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Michael D Godfrey, 2012/07/19
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Sergey Dudoladov, 2012/07/21
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Michael D Godfrey, 2012/07/21
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Ben Abbott, 2012/07/21
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Sergey Dudoladov, 2012/07/23
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Ben Abbott, 2012/07/23
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso, 2012/07/23
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- Fwd: Contributing to Octave help function., Sergey Dudoladov, 2012/07/26
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso, 2012/07/26
- Re: Contributing to Octave help function., Sergey Dudoladov, 2012/07/28