in the REPL, would it be reasonable to have "??" be able to do an
"apropos()" search?
Cameron
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
