[Scilab-users] uman 3.0 is released

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello,

After the previous uman 2.1 release 3 years ago on ATOMS,
uman 3.0 is a major upgrade of uman(), still available at
https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/uman
or with
--> atomsSystemUpdate
--> atomsInstall uman

After the 24k downloads of previous versions, uman 3.0 aims to make 
Scilabers work still easier.
Detailed changes of this version are given and illustrated in its
Release notes: 
https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/uman/3.0/files/uman_3.0_Release_Notes.pdf

Online help pages : in english 
<http://sgougeon.free.fr/scilab/help/uman/scilab_en_US_help>, or in 
french <http://sgougeon.free.fr/scilab/help/uman/scilab_fr_FR_help>

Best regards

Samuel Gougeon

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uman.. displays Scilab and ATOMS help pages in the console or online (in 
any chosen language), selects and displays bugs reports or messages 
posted on the mailing lists related to a given item. It makes life 
easier for newcomers coming from Octave or Matlab, and has other 
advanced features. MAIN NEW FEATURES OF 3.0 ------------------------ * 
uman configuration through a Preferences GUI. * Automatic management of 
ATOMS resources. * The documentation of removed functions can now be 
addressed. * New "p" option to display the Parameters section. * 4 new 
configuration parameters: - Allow wide tables - See also: compact list - 
Hyperlinks display style - List only unresolved bugs * 75 redirections / 
references added. * Internal: unit tests added (> 100 tests) SYNTAXES 
-------- uman — User manual in console, online, or help browser, with 
language switch and related bugs & messages. uman .. g — Displays the 
item's documentation in the help browser. uman .. @ — Selects 
informations from Scilab mailing lists. uman .. w — Shows the online 
help page or the reference web page of an item. uman .. b — Shows bugs 
reported on Scilab bugzilla or forge bugs trackers, or as ATOMS comments 
disp_usage — Displays allowed syntaxes to call a given function. MAIN 
FEATURES ------------- "uman" allows to easily select, grab and display 
information * from embedded Scilab help pages, * from pages of installed 
ATOMS modules, * from heading comments in local user-defined functions, 
* from pages of other external modules, packed in .jar archives, * from 
pages of former removed Scilab functions, * from the online Scilab help 
pages and search engine, * from ATOMS web pages and their comments, * 
from online Scilab forges, * from Scilab FileExchange pages, * from 
Scilab's bugs tracker, * from archives of all official Scilab mailing 
lists, * and from other external web sites presenting Scilab resources. 
Do not care where the required information is: uman gets it from the 
right place and displays it for you: In the console, in the help 
browser, or in your internet browser for online resources, it's up to 
you. The default factory settings of uman do not match your most 
frequent needs? uman has a comprehensive set of configuration 
parameters, easy to set in the uman Preferences interface. You will 
always be able to easily override them with compact command-line 
options. No need to view the whole help page. Just choose information 
that you want to display: only usages (syntaxes) and See also. Or more: 
parameters, description, examples, history, table of contents of the 
item's help section.. If really the whole page must be displayed, the 
"a" option will do it. You use to code in Octave language? Specify the 
Octave term you have in mind : More than 220 automatic redirections will 
target and display the closest Scilab equivalences. Other handy 
shortcuts are also defined for all users. Just give a language code en | 
de | fr | ja | pt | ru | zh in option, and you get the right version of 
the help page in the console or online. No need to change the session 
language. Watching the reference en_US english version of the page is 
now straightforward, without leaving your locales. The item of your 
query is a deprecated feature that has been removed from Scilab? uman 
will tell it to you, and may anyway display its former help page, 
online, or in the console or the help browser (provided that the 
https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/removed complementary module 
gathering pages of removed features is installed). You think that you 
met a bug? Check it with the "b" option, that will nicely list online 
documented bugs related to your query, possibly with filters (reporter's 
name, category, max age of last reports update), for Scilab and many 
ATOMS packages. Online users comments are as well directly reachable.. 
No need to load modules in the Scilab session. Even the documentation of 
packages that do not run under your Operating System can be viewed and 
displayed in the console. Want to efficiently probe mailing lists, for 
some items, or some authors, on some given period? "uman" does it easily 
for you from the console.


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