[Changeset]; Re: feature request / Matlab incompatability

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Aug-2008, David Bateman wrote:

| Peter L. Søndergaard wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > I develop the ltfat toolbox available at http://ltfat.sourceforge.net. I
| > try to keep the toolbox working equally well in Octave and Matlab.
| >
| > The toolbox is organized in subdirectories, each containing a
| > "Contents.m" file.
| >
| > In Matlab the user can type "help gabor" and this will display the
| > Contents.m file in the "gabor" directory. This does not work in Octave. 
| >
| > In Octave the user has to change the directory to the "gabor" directory
| > and then type "help Contents" to get the same listing.
| >
| > Other third-party toolboxes like WaveLab use the same system for
| > documentation and suffer from the same problem in Octave.
| >
| > So I humbly ask if it is possible to add this functionality to the
| > "help" command.
| >
| > Cheers,
| >
| > Peter.
| >   
| What about something like the attached?

I applied it with a minor change to try to ensure that only full
directory components are matched (i.e., don't find .../audio when
searching for "io").

Thanks,

jwe