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:
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.