4.2 Help

On-line help is available either by clicking on the help  button or by entering help item (where item is usually the name of a function or primitive). apropos keyword  looks for keyword in a whatis file. This facility is equivalent to the Unix whatis command. To add a new item or keyword is easy. Just create a .cat ASCII file describing the item and a whatis  file in your directory. Then add your directory path (and a title) in the file SCIDIR/man/Chapters (see also the README file there). You may use the standard format of the scilab manual  (see the SCIDIR/man/subdirectories). The Scilab L^ATEX manual is automatically obtained from the manual items by a Makefile. See the directory SCIDIR/man/Latex-doc. Note that the command manedit opens an help file with an editor (default editor is emacs).