Re: broken online help system

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Yann LeCun wrote:

> It was a single-character bug in a regular expression. I fixed it in
> the CVS. The third line of the function parse-help-entry
> in lsh/libstd/help.lsh was:
>
>  (pattern "^[ \t]*((\\**)[ \t]*((<<)?)[ \t]*(.*))$")
>
> It is now:
>
>  (pattern "^[ \t]*((\\**)[ \t]+((<<)?)[ \t]*(.*))$")
>

Thanks. Have you tested this? It does work for me if the help
text line is

#? * *gnuplot-color-to-linetype*

but not if it is

#? *gnuplot-color-to-linetype*

In the latter case, I get a missing document entry notice...

ralf




>> Check this manual section:
>> Core Interpreter and Startup Library -> Documentation and Help System ->
>> Writing Documentation -> Document Body: Brace Syntax
>>
>> Most likely you will want to use one of ,$expr or /$expr ,,$expr, to enter
>> a string.
>
> That works for funny text in the documentation body,
> but it doesn't work for documentation headings.
>
>  -- Yann
>
>
>
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