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4.8 Documentation

Apropos Editor Command

Arguments: string
Key sequence: Ctrl+H A string

Displays a Symbol Browser tool which lists symbols with symbol names matching string. The symbol name at the current point is offered as a default value for string.

By default string is matched against symbol names as a regular expression. A prefix argument causes a plain substring match to be used instead.

See 28.7 Regular expression syntax in the LispWorks® User Guide and Reference Manual for a description of regular expression matching. See the LispWorks IDE User Guide for a description of the Symbol Browser tool.

Describe Symbol Editor Command

Arguments: symbol
Key sequence: None

Displays a description (that is, value, property list, package, and so on) of symbol in a Help window. The symbol under the current point is offered as a default value for string. A prefix argument automatically causes this default value to be used.

Function Documentation Editor Command

Arguments: None
Key sequence: Ctrl+Shift+D

editor:function-documentation-command p

Prompts for a symbol, which defaults to the symbol at the current point, and displays the HTML documentation for that symbol if it is found in the HTML manuals index pages.

On GTK+ and X11/Motif, the prefix argument controls whether a new browser window is created. If the option Reuse existing browser window is selected in the browser preferences, then the prefix argument causes the command to create a new browser window. If Reuse existing browser window is deselected, then the prefix argument causes the command to reuse an existing browser window.

Show Documentation Editor Command

Arguments: name
Key sequence: Meta+Ctrl+Shift+A

Displays a Help window containing any documentation for the Lisp symbol name that is present in the Lisp image. This includes function lambda lists, and documentation strings accessible with cl:documentation, if any such documentation exists.

Show Documentation For Dspec Editor Command

Arguments: dspec
Key sequence: None

Displays any documentation in the Lisp image for the dspec dspec, as described for Show Documentation.

dspec is a symbol or list naming a definition, as described in 7 Dspecs: Tools for Handling Definitions in the LispWorks® User Guide and Reference Manual.


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