Re: How to get docstring of a function ?

[Carlo de Falco]

On 11 May 2010, at 14:36, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 10 May 2010 12:17, Pablo Winant <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This works in Matlab, but in octave it triggers an interactive viewer
> > which I don't want (I try to control Octave remotely).
>
> page_screen_output(0), but help stil doesn't return its docstring as
> an output parameter.
>
> Might require a patch to the sources...

see "get_help_text"

HTH,
c.