Re: high-level NEWS file?

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

* Sam Steingold [2017-11-29 19:44]:
> >>> ??lex
> 
> this opens a new xdvi window (which is dog-slow and inconvenient on a
> mac). it would be nice to get a browser tab instead (preferably,
> permalinked).

Two options:

1) the one I use (on my dog-slow mac, even opening a browser tab is
inconvenient :-). Add to ~/.gprc something like

  help = "/usr/local/bin/gphelp -detex -utf8 -ch 4 -cb 0 -cu 2"

Update 'gphelp' path to match 'make install' directories. See man gphelp
for details about the remaining arguments.

2) in the Terminal shell

  open http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/dochtml/help/lex

(replace with any GP function...)

The latter is the default help system for online gp at
  https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html,
it opens a browser tab inside
  https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/dochtml/html/


N.B. You can install the latter as a help plugin inside gp with something like

  help = "/update/this/path/to/custom_gp_help"

in ~/.gprc, with custom_gp_help the following script

  ## ########################################
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  $base= "http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/dochtml/help";;
  ($fun = $ARGV[1]) =~ s/\@.*//;
  system("open $base/$fun");

Then ??lex will act as the 'open' command above :-)


Cheers,

    K.B.
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