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author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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date | Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:25:32 -0400 |
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## Copyright (C) 2009 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. ## ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ## 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, extra) if (strcmpi (str, "-all")) ## The difference between using '-all' and not, is which part of the caches ## we search. The cache is organised such that its first column contains ## the function name, its second column contains the full help text, and its ## third column contains the first sentence of the help text. str = extra; search_type = 2; # when using caches, search its second column else search_type = 3; # when using caches, search its third column endif str = lower (str); ## 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); 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 (text, str))) fun (end+1) = fn; help_text (end+1) = first_sentence; endif endfor endif endfor if (nargout == 0) ## Print the results (FIXME: improve this to make it look better. indent = 20; term_width = terminal_size() (2); desc_width = term_width - indent - 2; indent_space = repmat (" ", 1, indent); for k = 1:length (fun) f = fun {k}; f (end+1:indent) = " "; printf (f); desc = strtrim (strrep (help_text {k}, "\n", " ")); ldesc = length (desc); printf ("%s\n", desc (1:min (desc_width, ldesc))); for start = desc_width+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 (cache (1, :), str); t2 = strfind (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