Re: Kind of a lookfor function (moved from help list)

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Jun-2005, David Bateman wrote:

| The status is that I don't want to write a function that won't be 
| incorporated into octave so I'm waiting for John to bless the idea of a 
| lookfor function, with the understanding that non texinfo help strings 
| might cause problems in getting the first sentence for the lookfor function.

I don't see how a compatible lookfor function could be a bad thing,
but I'm traveling now and don't have time to comment on the
implementation (I've not even had time to look at it).

jwe