I think that most new users are unlikely to know about apropos. Perhaps we
should put it in the julia banner.
We can say something like:
Type "help()" for function usage or "apropos()" to search the documentation.
apropos() could then just print a message about how to use it, just like
help() does.
-viral
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 7:35:44 PM UTC+5:30, Hans W Borchers wrote:
>
> But apropos does find it:
>
> julia> apropos("matrix inverse")
> INFO: Loading help data...
> Base.inv(M)
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:59:05 PM UTC+2, Tomas Lycken wrote:
>>
>> `inv` will do that for you.
>> http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/linalg/#Base.inv
>>
>> It's a little unfortunate that the help text is "Matrix inverse", yet
>> searching for that exact phrase yields no results at all. Is it possible to
>> make documentation search be full-text for help text as well?
>>
>> // T
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:39:53 PM UTC+2, Alan Chan wrote:
>>>
>>> sorry if it's a stupid question. But I cannot find one in the online doc.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
