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Qualifiers

Parameter

/INDICATED

/KEYPAD

/LANGUAGE

/LIBRARY

/PACKAGE

Language Sensitive Editor Menu HELP — VMS LSE_3.0

=TITLE HELP
 Displays information about LSE and SCA commands. In
 response to the Topic? prompt, you can also display
 such information as:

 o  New features in the update ("New_Features")

 o  Brief command descriptions with SCA commands noted
    ("Commands")

 o  Directions and suggestions for new users ("New_
    Users")

 o  Tutorial information about the use of many LSE
    features ("Features")

 o  Information about SCA topics ("SCA_Topics")

 Format

     HELP   [topic-list]

Additional information available:

QualifiersParameter

Qualifiers

=TITLE Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/INDICATED/KEYPAD/LANGUAGE/LIBRARY/PACKAGE

/INDICATED

    /INDICATED

 Causes LSE to display the help text associated with the
 token, placeholder, or routine at the current cursor
 position. If you do not specify or negate the /LANGUAGE
 qualifier or the /PACKAGE qualifier, LSE first looks
 for a language element. If the indicated item is not a
 language element, then LSE looks for a package element.

 The help text comes from the HELP library associated
 with the specified language or package. LSE forms
 a topic string by concatenating the /TOPIC_STRING
 qualifier associated with the language or package
 followed by the indicated token, placeholder, or entry
 name. LSE then searches for the topic in the HELP
 library.

 You cannot use the /INDICATED qualifier with any of the
 following qualifiers: /KEYPAD, /LANGUAGE, /LIBRARY, or
 /PACKAGE.

/KEYPAD

    /KEYPAD

 Specifies that you want keypad HELP. You cannot use the
 /KEYPAD qualifier with any of the following qualifiers:
 /INDICATED, /LANGUAGE, /LIBRARY, or /PACKAGE.

 The /KEYPAD qualifier builds the keypad diagram by
 using legends specified with the /LEGEND qualifier on
 the DEFINE KEY command. When the diagram is displayed
 and you press a key, LSE looks up the topic specified
 for that key by using the /TOPIC qualifier on the
 DEFINE KEY command, and displays the corresponding
 help text. The HELP library accessed is LSE$KEYPAD.HLB.

/LANGUAGE

    /LANGUAGE=language-name

 Causes LSE to take the value of the /TOPIC_STRING
 qualifier for the indicated language and concatenate
 that value to the front of the topic-list parameter
 on the HELP command. If you specify the /LANGUAGE
 qualifier without a value, then LSE uses the language
 associated with the current buffer. (In this case, not
 having the current buffer associated with a language
 creates an error.)

 You must not specify either the /KEYPAD qualifier or
 the /PACKAGE qualifier with the /LANGUAGE qualifier.

/LIBRARY

    /LIBRARY=library-name

 Specifies which HELP library LSE searches for the
 topic. This qualifier overrides the library file
 determined by LSE's default behavior. You may specify
 any other qualifiers with the /LIBRARY qualifier,
 except for the /KEYPAD qualifier.

/PACKAGE

    /PACKAGE=package-name

 Causes LSE to take the value of the /TOPIC_STRING
 qualifier for the indicated package and concatenate
 that value to the front of the topic-list parameter on
 the HELP command. You must provide the package name as
 the value of the qualifier.

 You must not specify either the /KEYPAD or the
 /LANGUAGE qualifier with the /PACKAGE qualifier.

Parameter

=TITLE Parameter

topic-list
 Indicates the topic for which you want help. This
 may be any list of topics valid for input to the DCL
 command interpreter's HELP command. The topic list must
 not be specified with the /INDICATED qualifier.

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