@jwe: Thank you very much "help CLASSNAME.METHOD" works like a charm on stable and default.

Should I open a separate report about "help class.var"?

This item I would consider as closed.

If you consider your changes suitable for Octave 6, too, I would be very interested to get this feature already with Octave 6.  Octave 7 might be release in 1 to 2 years from now.

If the parser did not change too much, I can try to graft them back to stable (Octave 6).

jwe, thank you very much for this amazing feature update.  For Octave's classdef classes and for a project of mine (using Matlab doc-strings) it works great =)

Your patches went on default (aka Octave 7), not stable as you wrote.  Is this correct?  Then this item can be closed.

Remaining features, such as help display for member documentations

help class.var
help class.meth

should be addressed in a separate bug report.

I haven't seen this error with the build, I don't think this is still a "build failure" item. Specficially, inputParser does show up in the manual even though the "help" function doesn't find it.

So "help inputParser" fails but "doc inputParser" works.

I have check out the development source yesterday (21 Aug., 2014).
and tried to build.

The build failed during making docimentation.

../../run-octave -f -q -H -p ../../../octave/doc/interpreter --eval "splineimages ('splinefit6', 'txt');"
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
        am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../octave/doc/interpreter && \
        rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
        if (/bin/bash /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/Octave/develop/octave/build-aux/missing makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
          for f in ../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.info ../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.info-[0-9] ../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.info-[0-9][0-9] ../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.i[0-9] ../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
            if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
          done; \
        else :; fi && \
        cd "$am__cwd"; \
        if /bin/bash /home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/Octave/develop/octave/build-aux/missing makeinfo   -I ../../../octave/doc/interpreter \
         -o ../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.info ../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.texi; \
        then \
          rc=0; \
          CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../octave/doc/interpreter; \
        else \
          rc=$?; \
          CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../octave/doc/interpreter && \
          $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
        fi; \
        rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
./func.texi:773: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
./func.texi:773: warning: missing name for @deftypefnx
./func.texi:776: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
./func.texi:776: warning: missing name for @deftypefnx
./func.texi:779: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
./func.texi:779: warning: missing name for @deftypefnx
./func.texi:783: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
./func.texi:783: warning: missing name for @deftypefnx
./func.texi:786: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
./func.texi:789: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
./func.texi:792: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
./func.texi:800: must be after `@deftypefn' to use `@deftypefnx'
make[3]: *** [../../../octave/doc/interpreter/octave.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/Octave/develop/build/doc/interpreter'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/Octave/develop/build/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tatsuromatsuoka/work/Octave/develop/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any suggestions?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS amd64. GCC version is 4.8.2.

Tatsuro