Help Menu
The Help Menu displays commands that display documentation or other
information about the currently selected object or about the
system. The commands on the menu are:
- Help on Selected Symbol -- Display the html page for the
currently selected symbol. If no help page exists, displays a dialog
saying that. If multiple pages exist (because, e.g., the symbol names
more than one type of object), a dialog displaying the choices
appears. This and some of the other Help Menu commands display help in
your default HTML browser program by calling the function invoke-html-browser.
- ANSI Common Lisp --
This command displays in an HTML Browser introduction
page of the ANSI CL Spec (located in the ansicl/
subdirectory of the Allegro Directory).
- Symbol Index --
This command displays, in an HTML Browser, the index to the Allegro CL
documentation, index.htm. (The
index lists all documented symbols
along with other material.)
- Permuted Index -- This command displays, in an HTML Browser, the
permuted index to the Allegro CL documentation,
permuted-index.htm. This indexes each symbol and
topic under each "word" of the symbol name or topic phrase. For
example, the symbol effective-background-color can be found
alphabetized by background-color and color in addition
to effective-background-color.
- Interactive IDE Intro --
Run a high-level interactive introduction
to the variety of development tools that are available in the IDE.
- Quick Symbol Info --
Prints information about the currently-selected symbol to the status
bar of the Project Window and (unless
the selected symbol is in the Debug Window) to the Debug Window.
- Quick Class Info --
Prints information about the currently selected symbol (which should
name a class) to the status bar of the Project Window and (unless
the selected symbol is in the Debug Window) to the Debug Window.
- Symbol Doc String --
Prints the Function
documentation string, if any, to the Debug window. Note that
most Allegro CL and IDE objects do not have documentation strings.
- Write a Bug Report --
Displays a dialog allowing you to choose what
processes to get backtraces for, asks additional questions about what
to include, and then allows you to choose a filename for the bug
report file. The file, when written, can be included in a problem
report to technical support (see Reporting bugs in
introduction.htm for where to send bug reports).
- Connect to franz.com --
Displays the Franz Inc. home page (which has technical as well as
marketing and sales information) in a browser.
- About Allegro CL --
Displays a dialog with information about the current version of Allegro CL.
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