Re: [Jscheme-user] help features in JScheme

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

> (apropos "file")
file: 
open-input-file: {jsint.Primitive open-input-file[1]}
open-output-file: {jsint.Primitive open-output-file[1]}
call-with-output-file: {jsint.Primitive call-with-output-file[2]}
call-with-input-file: {jsint.Primitive call-with-input-file[2]}
> (define (frogs n) (+ n 3))
{jsint.Closure frogs[1] (n)}
> (apropos "frogs")
frogs: {jsint.Closure frogs[1] (n)}

At 06:30 AM 3/9/2003 -0500, Geoffrey Knauth wrote:
>Something I like in JScheme:
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>If I don't remember the arguments to a function, I can just type the name of an application's function:
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>e.g., DEMAND_STREAMS_OF_TYPE
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>and it will return the number and name of the expected arguments:
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>e.g. ... Closure DEMAND_STREAMS_OF_TYPE[2] (type cs-descr)
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>How much more would it take to adopt an Emacs-like standard of having an optional initial string representing help text?  If the string were a URL, it also could point to online help with markup, while keeping clutter in a user's Scheme code to a minimum.  If the URL used quasiquotes, you could have the online help toggle between the JScheme website for core JScheme functions, and a local site when the JScheme user is offline or for help with the JScheme user's own application code.
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>Geoffrey
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