Function to get doc-strings from user-defined functions

SKILL seems to support elisp-style docstrings. But I haven't found a
way of accessing them in the CIW. Does any one know howto get them in
CIW?

Thanks,
Satya

 

Satya,

This is no longer supported. Many years ago, the "help" function used to look at
this information for a function and print it - nowadays help looks in the finder
database.

In fact now if you run SKILL Lint on code that has a documentation string (which
was a literal text string appearing as the first statement in the body of the
function definition), it reports:

INFO (FDOC): code.il, line 1 : _fdoc no longer supported.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Andrew,

Thanks for that clarification. So what is the recommended method for
online documentation on
user-defined functions these days?

Satya

 

It's possible to add to the cdsFinder database - I think this is covered in the
documentation.

Then it would work with help() too.

Andrew.

 

I knew there had to be some use for the documentation Thanks a lot
for the pointer. I can now get help on my functions.

Satya