viewHelp -- view online documentation in a web browser

Synopsis

Usage:

viewHelp

viewHelp X
Inputs:
- X, a thing, a descriptor for a documentation node (see below for examples)
Consequences:
- The given documentation page is displayed using the function show which opens the page in the default web browser.

If no argument is given to viewHelp then the top page of your local html documentation is displayed.

Some example uses:

viewHelp -- top of local copy of the documentation, including installed packages
viewHelp "Macaulay2" -- top of Macaulay2 doc
viewHelp ideal -- online doc for the 'ideal' function
viewHelp "matrices" -- overview of matrices in Macaulay2
viewHelp (ideal, List) -- online doc for ideal(List) method
viewHelp (diff, Matrix, Matrix) -- online doc for the diff function taking two matrices as arguments
viewHelp [gb, DegreeLimit] -- view doc for the optional argument DegreeLimit to gb function
viewHelp (symbol**, Matrix, Matrix) -- view doc for Matrix**Matrix

The help command allows other possible arguments, such as help methods ideal, but for viewHelp the argument X must refer to only one web page.

The object viewHelp is a command.