Re: Catching up to Matlab

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Nov-2010, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

| I am seriously considering volunteering, but _my_ way. The idea is
| trivially simple:
| 
| to modify 'octave' built-in 'help' function in a manner it will in
| addition to displaying 'octave' built-in documentation will display
| the corresponding Matlab documentation by invoking WEB browser with
| URL pointing to Matlab documentation of the same function.

You are free to do what you like with the help function (subject to
the terms of the GPL) but I don't think a patch like you describe will
be accepted as part of Octave.  I certainly would not apply it, and
would likely remove it if someone else did.

jwe