[Sc-devel] autoHelp?

[James Harkins]

On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:20 AM, James Harkins wrote:

> (Score another one for auto completion in the OSX version... all I  
> had to do to find that one was type "help (" and scroll through the  
> list until I saw helpFilePath... but really, auto completion here  
> is just taking the place of a proper method search that allows  
> partial string matching. That's a sorely needed feature for new  
> users... well, ANY user, really.)

Should have said, "help(" --

Let me think about how this kind of method search could be done for  
3.2. How many times do we hear, "I can't find a method to do xyz"?  
Maybe the search capability already exists, but as near as I can  
tell, all the internal snooping search methods assume that you  
already know the name of what you're looking for.

hjh


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