manedit

editing a manual item

Calling Sequence

manedit(manitem)

Arguments

:manitem character string (usually, name of a function) :

Description

edit(manitem) opens the xml file associated to manitem in the scilab editor.

If there is no xml file associated with manitem and manitem is the name of a Scilab function, editor opens with the skeleton of the xml file produced by help_skeleton. This file is located in TMPDIR.

Examples

manedit('manedit')

function [x, y, z]=foo123(a, b),
x=a+b,y=a-b,z=a==b
endfunction
manedit foo123

See Also

• help on-line help command
• help_skeleton build the skeleton of the xml help file associated to a Scilab function