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authordos-reis <gdr@axiomatics.org>2009-04-18 06:11:42 +0000
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Fix SF/2757715
* Makefile.pamphlet (all-input): Make all-doc a requirement. (all-doc): Tidy. * doc/Makefile.in: Likewise. Install help files. * doc/help: New. Home for help files.
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+Copyright The Numerical Algorithms Group Limited 1992-94. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (C) 2007-2009, Gabriel Dos Reis. All rights reserved.
+
+OpenAxiom Help Information.
+Section numbers refer to the on-line version of the book
+AXIOM: The Scientific Computation System by Richard D. Jenks and Robert S. Sutor
+
+==============================================================================
+A.9. )edit
+==============================================================================
+
+User Level Required: interpreter
+
+Command Syntax:
+
+ - )edit [filename]
+
+Command Description:
+
+This command is used to edit files. It works in conjunction with the )read
+and )compile commands to remember the name of the file on which you are
+working. By specifying the name fully, you can edit any file you wish. Thus
+
+)edit /u/julius/matrix.input
+
+will place you in an editor looking at the file /u/julius/matrix.input. By
+default, the editor is vi, but if you have an EDITOR shell environment
+variable defined, that editor will be used. When OpenAxiom is running
+under the X Window System, it will try to open a separate xterm
+running your editor if it thinks one is necessary. For example, under
+the Korn shell, if you issue
+
+export EDITOR=emacs
+
+then the emacs editor will be used by )edit.
+
+If you do not specify a file name, the last file you edited, read or compiled
+will be used. If there is no ``last file'' you will be placed in the editor
+editing an empty unnamed file.
+
+It is possible to use the )system command to edit a file directly. For
+example,
+
+)system emacs /etc/rc.tcpip
+
+calls emacs to edit the file.
+
+Also See:
+o )system
+o )compile
+o )read
+