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bug #45045: documentation cache for octave packages does not include autoload functions

Submitter:  CarnĂ« Draug <carandraug>
Submitted:  Thu 07 May 2015 03:33:54 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Incorrect Result
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sun 10 May 2015 09:12:25 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Confirmed with the communications package.

A little further detail, the additional functions in oct-files are not returned by the following call:


>> list = __list_functions__ ("~/octave/communications-1.2.1/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-api-v50+")


I guess this function should be fixed to return the names of all functions in the directory, even multiple DEFUNs in oct-files.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Thu 07 May 2015 03:33:54 PM UTC, original submission:  

When cache for documentation for a package is created (calling doc_cache_create), only the function named by the oct file gets his documentation created. The end result is that `lookfor` will not use autoloaded functions when searching the help text.

Example using the image package where searching for label should return both bwlabel and bwlabeln:


> pkg load image
> man bwlabel
[...]
 -- Loadable Function: [L, NUM] = bwlabel( BW)
 -- Loadable Function: [L, NUM] = bwlabel( BW, N)
     Label binary 2 dimensional image.
[...]
> man bwlabeln
[...]
 -- Loadable Function: [L, NUM] = bwlabeln (BW)
 -- Loadable Function: [L, NUM] = bwlabeln (BW, N)
     Label foreground objects in the n-dimensional binary image BW.
[...]
> lookfor label
clabel              Add labels to the contours of a contour plot.
datetick            Add date formatted tick labels to an axis.
legend              Display a legend for the current axes using the specified strings  as labels.
xlabel              Specify the string used to label the x-axis of the current axis.
ylabel              Specify the string used to label the y-axis of the current axis.
zlabel              Specify the string used to label the z-axis of the current axis.
label2rgb           Convert labeled image into RGB.
labelmatrix         Create labelled matrix from bwconncomp structure.
bwlabeln            Label foreground objects in the n-dimensional binary image BW.


Kudos to Olaf Till for finding this issue.

Carnë Draug <carandraug>
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