help(compare section HELP) and, secind, the kinds for help on the window that display the manual at hand. This section only deals with the second type of help texts.
The exaEdit manual is available in four different formats:
As the entire manual does not fit into the program exaEdit, it is a separate file which does not necessarily have to be available on a workstation containing exaEdit. This may occur, for example, when it was forgotten to put the manual file in an adequate directory. Another problem results from the fact that looking at the manual on the screen needs other programs, which do not belong to exaEdit, and which are not available on every workstation. In addition to this, these other programs need different kinds of representation of the manual.
exaEdit has the command
manualfor looking at the user manual on the screen and uses an external program, a set of parameters (optionally), and a file to do this. After you entered the command, the program together with the parameters is unleashed on the file.
Since, as already mentioned, different programs, files and parameters are possible, exaEdit affixes names to sets containing items that go together. exaEdit always has one such manual set predefined. When using it, you will get the exaEdit manual that is available in the WWW. After certain types of installation, a second manual set is made available. This is then linked to a local copy of the manual. You can always change or extend the ways how the manuals are called, either in a running exaEdit session, or in the exaEdit profile file. The command
manual * ?