--- "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ---Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> > --- "Philip A. Viton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Do we have a convention/utility for documenting and displaying help
> > > for a verb (as opposed to a script, ie scriptdoc)? I'd like to be
> > > able to do eg myverb 'help' or maybe myverb '?' and get a message
> > > about the verb. It's easy to set something like this up, but if we'd
> > > come up with a standard way I'd prefer to use it.
> >
> > I don't believe there is one, but it should be easy to
> > extend scriptdoc to display help for just one name:
> > it already can locate a name (with Ctrl+F1 in FE).
> >
> > It makes sense to preserve the existing documenting
> > conventions (NB.* above name).
> >
> > For consistency with scriptdoc, it would be a verb
> > "namedoc" (akin to NAMEs and scriptDOC) with interface:
>
> I think this would be a great addition - especially for new users. I remember
> working out early
> on that I could just type the name of a verb in the IDE and its definition
> would be displayed,
> but I found it frustrating that I wasn't able to see the documentation for it.
>
> I'd vote for calling the new verb "help" despite the fact that it isn't
> consistent with
> scriptdoc. I think that would be more "discoverable". i.e.
> help 'assert'
> help 'boxopen'
Sorry, "help" is already taken:
help_j_'names'
help_j_'help'
help_j_'+'
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