From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Apr  4 16:06:20 2006
Subject: lookfor bug
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Keith Goodman" <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
Cc: "octave bug mailing list" <bug at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:05:45 -0400

On 27-Mar-2006, Keith Goodman wrote:

| What is going on here (noindent)?
| 
| >> lookfor sum
| WIFCONTINUED         Given STATUS from a call to `waitpid', return
| true if the child process was resumed by delivery of `SIGCONT'.
| builtin:cumsum       Cumulative sum of elements along dimension DIM.
| builtin:sum          Sum of elements along dimension DIM.
| builtin:sumsq        Sum of squares of elements along dimension DIM.
| cumsum                at noindent
| sum                   at noindent
| sumsq                 at noindent

I did a little investigating and it seems that the code in the function
first_help_sentence in help.cc is not handling the help text for
overloaded functions correctly.  It seems to be mistaking the

   at noindent
  Overloaded function:

as the beginning of the help text.  I'm not sure of the fix as I don't
quite follow the intent of all the code in Flookfor and
first_help_sentence.

jwe



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