Re: help exit

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
 > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 01:54 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
 >
 >>Speaking of "help", attached is a short patch for displaying the topic at the
 >>very beginning of help, e.g.,
 >>
 >>gnuplot> help gnuplot
 >>TOPIC: gnuplot-defined variables
 >>  The variable `pi` is defined to be pi, see
 >>        print pi
 >
 >
 >
 > Don't you think a more reasonable fix would be to add a line
 > ?gnuplot
 > at the start of some more appropraite help section?

Yes and no.  Whether a help for "gnuplot" is needed is even questionable.  But
the problem is accounting for all the possible things a user could type
expecting to see help for.  In most cases gnuplot would say "Sorry, no help",
but occassionally the user will by chance choose some characters that match a
key.  Sure, correcting by filling a hole in gnuplot.doc will work, but that's a
potentially never ending game, isn't it?

It's not that critical.

Dan