List of names of functions, keywords, etc.

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Oct-2007, José Luis García Pallero wrote:

| Hello:
| I want to write an update octave syntax definition file for Kate editor.
| Now, the file octave.xml (/usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax in a Debian
| installation) has the next header:
| 
| <!--
|   ====================================================================
|   Octave syntax highlighting file for the KDE editors Kate and Kwrite
|   ====================================================================
|       based on Octave 2.1.64
|       function and variable list obtained by dispatch_help()'s output
| 
|   Change log:
|   16-Dec-04  Created from Matlab and Scilab files.
| 
|   Author: Federico Zenith, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
|   Thanks to Luis Silvestre for previous version and suggestions
| -->
| 
| I have several doubts:
| 1-Where is dispatch_help() function? Not exists in octave 2.9.15

According to this ChangeLog entry, it was deleted more than two years
ago:

  2005-06-17  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>

          * DLD-FUNCTIONS/dispatch.cc (Fdispatch_help): Delete.
          (dispatch_record): Don't prepend "<>" to help text.
          (Fdispatch): Don't setup dispatched help.

| 2-Exist any function that lists the nemes of octave functions, builtins,
| etc.

There are no more built-in variables in Octave.

The list of all functions can be found from the output of "help".  Are
you trying to get the list directly from Octave, or would the list be
coded into the editor syntax definition file?

jwe