Clear and well formulated Pull Requests are definitely welcome. Looking at the history of this leads me to #1460 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1460> where a almost exact inverse of your proposed change was introduced as a resolution.
How about you try it out, and post a few example searches so that it becomes easier for the community to see what output looks best. There are definitely concerns about dumping large amounts of text into the terminal if you happened to search for a common term, but that could be solved by some other form of output limiting. Ivar kl. 14:15:06 UTC+2 onsdag 30. juli 2014 skrev Júlio Hoffimann følgende: > > Dear all, > > I'm used to apropos in Linux as a tool for printing command/description > pairs. The current implementation in Julia filters out the most useful > piece of information: > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/help.jl#L152-L157 > > Could I send you a pull request to replace the highlighted lines above by > println(io, > desc)? > > BTW, what is the closest we can get from Python docstrings in Julia? I see > many issues on GitHub, none is solved. How to take advantage of Julia's > help() function within my own code base? > > Best, > Júlio. >
