[6295] in s-news-athena
Re: Use the electronic help facility.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Durst [csr])
Fri Jan 27 19:24:51 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 16:06:08 -0800
From: "Mark Durst [csr]" <durst@cedr.lbl.gov>
To: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu
Reply-To: MJDurst@lbl.gov
Eric Kostello writes:
> Bill gave an example of the help facility's hierarchical search
> method. It also knows all the words in the title of each function
> (and data set) and you can search that way too.
A shortcoming is that it can't search the whole text of the help file,
only the one-line title. I hacked out a Perl script "s_grep" to do
this, but it would be nicer built in to the help facility. Something
like the "super-apropos" command in GNU Emacs.
Mark Durst
mjdurst@lbl.gov
(510)486-4136
