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bug #49687: help no longer works for functions defined with DEFALIAS

Submitter:  Rik <rik5>
Submitted:  Wed 23 Nov 2016 10:08:40 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Regression
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.2.0 Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Tue 13 Dec 2016 03:01:35 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I checked in the following changeset on stable and merged it to default:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/0419dec5d5c1

John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Tue 13 Dec 2016 04:31:34 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Slight problem.  After this change was merged from stable, where it works, to dev it is no longer possible to get help on dldfcns.


help convhulln
'convhulln' is a function from the file /home/rik/wip/Projects_Mine/octave-dev/libinterp/dldfcn/convhulln.oct

external-doc


This was cset


changeset:   22822:4e9241cf59db
branch:      stable
user:        John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date:        Wed Nov 23 20:28:48 2016 -0500
summary:     find help for function aliases again (bug #49687)



Rik <rik5>
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Thu 24 Nov 2016 01:56:24 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Fix verified.  Closing report.

Rik <rik5>
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Thu 24 Nov 2016 01:31:50 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I pushed the following changeset to stable:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4e9241cf59db

John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Wed 23 Nov 2016 10:08:40 PM UTC, original submission:  

In prior versions of Octave, the documentation for functions which were aliases of each other could be obtained under either name.  In 4.2.0, only one name is allowed.  I happened to find this with the home/clc pair, but there are many other examples such as lower/tolower.


DEFALIAS (home, clc)
help home
error: help: 'home' not found


This is probably a consequence of changing how the docstrings are stored in C++ files.

Rik <rik5>
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