[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52774] help for continuation marker has strange extraneous statement

[Dan Sebald]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52774>

                 Summary: help for continuation marker has strange extraneous
statement
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: sebald
            Submitted on: Mon 01 Jan 2018 04:05:20 AM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

In https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52772 I noted the ... and \ continuation
"operators" in the PDF user manual.  In the online help there are also some
issues.  The ... has an extraneous bit about the director "/home" in it. 
I.e.,


octave:5> help("...")
'...' is the directory /home

 -- ...
     Continuation marker.

     Joins current line with following line.


I launched octave from two levels deep in the above example so it is
apparently going back two levels.  The main issue is the directory printout. 
I think this is another example of the similar issue with "help ./" solved
here

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=50034#comment8


The secondary issue is simply that "help \" doesn't mention the possible use
as a continuation marker, just the division operator:


octave:6> help('\')

 -- \
     Left division operator.

     See also: .\, /, ldivide, mldivide.





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