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1 ## Copyright (C) 2005 Soren Hauberg |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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4 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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5 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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6 ## (at your option) any later version. |
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7 ## |
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8 ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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9 ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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10 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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11 ## GNU General Public License for more details. |
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12 ## |
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13 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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14 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free |
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15 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
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16 ## 02110-1301, USA. |
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17 |
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18 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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19 ## @deftypefn {Command} doc @var{function_name} |
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20 ## Display documentation for the function @var{function_name} |
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21 ## directly from an on-line version of |
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22 ## the printed manual, using the GNU Info browser. If invoked without |
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23 ## any arguments, the manual is shown from the beginning. |
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24 ## |
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25 ## For example, the command @kbd{doc rand} starts the GNU Info browser |
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26 ## at this node in the on-line version of the manual. |
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27 ## |
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28 ## Once the GNU Info browser is running, help for using it is available |
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29 ## using the command @kbd{C-h}. |
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30 ## @seealso{help} |
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31 ## @end deftypefn |
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32 |
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33 ## Author: Soren Hauberg <soren@hauberg.org> |
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34 ## Adapted-by: jwe |
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35 |
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36 ## PKG_ADD: mark_as_command doc |
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37 |
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38 function retval = doc (fname) |
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39 |
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40 if (nargin == 0 || nargin == 1) |
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41 |
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42 ftype = 0; |
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43 |
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44 if (nargin == 1) |
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45 ## Get the directory where the function lives. |
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46 ## FIXME -- maybe we should have a better way of doing this. |
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47 |
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48 if (ischar (fname)) |
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49 ftype = exist (fname); |
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50 else |
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51 error ("doc: expecting argument to be a character string"); |
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52 endif |
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53 else |
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54 fname = ""; |
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55 endif |
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56 |
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57 if (ftype == 2 || ftype == 3) |
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58 ffile = which (fname); |
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59 else |
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60 ffile = ""; |
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61 endif |
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62 |
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63 if (isempty (ffile)) |
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64 info_dir = octave_config_info ("infodir"); |
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65 else |
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66 info_dir = fileparts (ffile); |
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67 endif |
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68 |
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69 ## Determine if a file called doc.info exist in the same |
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70 ## directory as the function. |
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71 |
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72 info_file_name = fullfile (info_dir, "doc.info"); |
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73 |
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74 [stat_info, err] = stat (info_file_name); |
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75 |
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76 if (err < 0) |
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77 info_file_name = info_file (); |
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78 endif |
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79 |
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80 ## FIXME -- don't change the order of the arguments below because |
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81 ## the info-emacs-info script currently expects --directory DIR as |
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82 ## the third and fourth arguments. Someone should fix that. |
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83 |
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84 cmd = sprintf ("\"%s\" --file \"%s\" --directory \"%s\"", |
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85 info_program (), info_file_name, info_dir); |
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86 |
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87 have_fname = ! isempty (fname); |
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88 |
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89 if (have_fname) |
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90 status = system (sprintf ("%s --index-search %s", cmd, fname)); |
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91 endif |
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92 |
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93 if (! (have_fname && status == 0)) |
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94 status = system (cmd); |
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95 if (status == 127) |
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96 warning ("unable to find info program `%s'", info_program ()); |
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97 endif |
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98 endif |
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99 |
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100 if (nargout > 0) |
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101 retval = status; |
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102 endif |
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103 |
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104 else |
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105 print_usage (); |
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106 endif |
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107 |
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108 endfunction |
