OK, in jqt801, the Help menu item Context Sensitive does work. Of course it is odd that what you get in the case of fread is the file (root)/trunk/main/main/files.ijs in the Subversion repository -- a file that does not exist in the current version of J.
But neither Ctrl-F1 (nor Cmd-F1, which is what the menu shortcut says) seem to do anything. At least I'm ahead of the game in knowing that there is a script (now embedded in effect into stdlib.ijs) that has a function named 'fread'. How would a newcomer learn about fread? I ask this question not only as a user of J who needs the crutch of documentation but also as a J enthusiast who would like more people to use it. That's why I keep prodding about such things. Ever new GUIs are all very well, but what good are they if a user cannot find out what's available and how to use it? On 27 May 2013 23:01:09 +0800, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > context sensitive help (ctrl-F1) on fread should open files.ijs > > Either I or you mis-remember or forget, this should have been > asked by you and answered by me in J forum. > > ??, 27 ??? 2013, Murray Eisenberg ?????(?): >> >> On 26 May 2013 15:32:47 -0600, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That does it; thanks! >> >> But how do you know about the optional 'b' argument of fread? I cannot find >> documentation about fread at all -- either in J701 or J801 using scriptdoc >> or in the help pages, included with J or on-line. .. --- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
