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Refactor configure.ac to make it more understandable. Use common syntax for messages in config.h Correct typos, refer to libraries in all caps, use two spaces after period. Follow Autoconf guidelines and place general tests before specific tests. * configure.ac, m4/acinclude.m4: Use common syntax for messages in config.h Correct typos, refer to libraries in all caps, use two spaces after period. Follow Autoconf guidelines and place general tests before specific tests.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:28:51 -0700
parents 7277fe922e99
children 1de4ec2a856d
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## Copyright (C) 2009-2012 S�ren Hauberg
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
## your option) any later version.
##
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## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Command} {} lookfor @var{str}
## @deftypefnx {Command} {} lookfor -all @var{str}
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{func}, @var{helpstring}] =} lookfor (@var{str})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{func}, @var{helpstring}] =} lookfor ("-all", @var{str})
## Search for the string @var{str} in all functions found in the current
## function search path.  By default, @code{lookfor} searches for @var{str}
## in the first sentence of the help string of each function found.  The entire
## help text of each function can be searched if the "-all" argument is
## supplied.  All searches are case insensitive.
##
## Called with no output arguments, @code{lookfor} prints the list of
## matching functions to the terminal.  Otherwise, the output arguments
## @var{func} and @var{helpstring} define the matching functions and the
## first sentence of each of their help strings.
##
## The ability of @code{lookfor} to correctly identify the first
## sentence of the help text is dependent on the format of the
## function's help.  All Octave core functions are correctly
## formatted, but the same can not be guaranteed for external packages and
## user-supplied functions.  Therefore, the use of the "-all" argument may
## be necessary to find related functions that are not a part of Octave.
## @seealso{help, doc, which}
## @end deftypefn

function [out_fun, out_help_text] = lookfor (str, arg2)

  if (strcmpi (str, "-all"))
    ## The difference between using '-all' and not, is which part of the caches
    ## we search.  The cache is organized such that the first column contains
    ## the function name, the second column contains the full help text, and
    ## the third column contains the first sentence of the help text.
    str = arg2;
    search_type = 2; # when using caches, search the second column
  else
    search_type = 3; # when using caches, search the third column
  endif
  str = lower (str);   # Compare is case insensitive

  ## Search functions, operators, and keywords that come with Octave
  cache_file = doc_cache_file ();
  if (exist (cache_file, "file"))
    [fun, help_text] = search_cache (str, cache_file, search_type);
    had_core_cache = true;
  else
    fun = help_text = {};
    had_core_cache = false;
  endif

  ## Search functions in new path dirs.
  orig_path = strsplit (__pathorig__ (), pathsep ());

  ## ditto for path.
  new_path = strsplit (path (), pathsep ());

  ## scratch out directories already covered by orig_path.
  if (had_core_cache)
    new_path = setdiff (new_path, orig_path);
  endif

  for n = 1:numel (new_path)
    elt = new_path{n};
    cache_file = fullfile (elt, "doc-cache");
    if (exist (cache_file, "file"))
      ## We have a cache in the directory, then read it and search it!
      [funs, hts] = search_cache (str, cache_file, search_type);
      fun(end+1:end+length (funs)) = funs;
      help_text(end+1:end+length (hts)) = hts;
    else
    ## We don't have a cache. Search files
      funs_in_f = __list_functions__ (elt);
      for m = 1:length (funs_in_f)
        fn = funs_in_f{m};

        ## Skip files that start with __
        if (length (fn) > 2 && strcmp (fn(1:2), "__"))
          continue;
        endif

        ## Extract first sentence
        try
          warn_state = warning ();
          unwind_protect
            warning ("off");
            first_sentence = get_first_help_sentence (fn, 1024);
            status = 0;
          unwind_protect_cleanup
            warning (warn_state);
          end_unwind_protect
        catch
          status = 1;
        end_try_catch

        if (search_type == 2) # search entire help text
          try
            warn_state = warning ();
            unwind_protect
              warning ("off");
              [text, fmt] = get_help_text (fn);
              status = 0;
            unwind_protect_cleanup
              warning (warn_state);
            end_unwind_protect
          catch
            status = 1;
          end_try_catch

          ## Take action depending on help text fmt
          switch (lower (fmt))
            case "plain text"
              status = 0;
            case "texinfo"
              [text, status] = __makeinfo__ (text, "plain text");
            case "html"
              [text, status] = strip_html_tags (text);
            otherwise
              status = 1;
          endswitch

        elseif (status == 0) # only search the first sentence of the help text
          text = first_sentence;
        endif

        ## Search the help text, if we can
        if (status == 0 && ! isempty (strfind (lower (text), str)))
          fun(end+1) = fn;
          help_text(end+1) = first_sentence;
        endif
      endfor
    endif
  endfor

  if (nargout == 0)
    ## Print the results (FIXME: it would be nice to break at word boundaries)
    indent = 20;
    term_width = (terminal_size ())(2);
    desc_width = term_width - indent - 2;
    indent_space = blanks (indent);
    for k = 1:length (fun)
      f = fun{k};
      f(end+1:indent-1) = " ";
      puts ([f " "]);
      lf = length (f);
      desc = strtrim (strrep (help_text{k}, "\n", " "));
      ldesc = length (desc);
      printf ("%s\n", desc(1:min (ldesc, desc_width - (lf - indent))));
      for start = (desc_width - (lf - indent) + 1):desc_width:ldesc
        stop = min (start + desc_width, ldesc);
        printf ("%s%s\n", indent_space, strtrim (desc (start:stop)));
      endfor
    endfor

  else
    ## Return the results instead of displaying them
    out_fun = fun;
    out_help_text = help_text;
  endif

endfunction

function [funs, help_texts] = search_cache (str, cache_file, search_type)
  load (cache_file);
  if (! isempty (cache))
    t1 = strfind (lower (cache (1, :)), str);
    t2 = strfind (lower (cache (search_type, :)), str);
    cache_idx = find (! (cellfun ("isempty", t1) & cellfun ("isempty", t2)));
    funs = cache(1, cache_idx);
    help_texts = cache(3, cache_idx);
  else
    funs = help_texts = {};
  endif
endfunction