From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Dec 14 11:15:33 2005
Subject: autoload vs. help
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:15:17 -0500

On 13-Dec-2005, David Bateman wrote:

| BTW, I just noticed that the autoload stuff has an implication I hadn't 
| realized, in that if you type "help" then the autoloaded functions no 
| longer appear in the summary of the available functions...

OK.  A possible solution for this is to have the autoload function
insert some information in a table that can be used by help.  What I'm
thinking of is to have

  autoload (FCN_NAME, FILE_NAME)

also add FCN_NAME to a map, keyed with the directory part of
FILE_NAME.  Then when the help function is going through the list of
directories in LOADPATH, it can also grab the corresponding function
names from the autoload map.

I see that we also need to have the completion function look at the
list of autoloaded function names.

jwe



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