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@@ -77574,7 +77574,53 @@ The object .code 4 is self-evaluating, and so the greedy evaluation process stops. -.SS* Listener-Related Miscellanea +.coNP Special variable @ *doc-url* +.desc +The special variable +.code *doc-url* +holds a character string representing a web URL intended to point to the HTML +version of this document. The initial value points to the publicly hosted +document on the Internet. The user may change this to point to another +location, such as a locally hosted copy of the document. + +This variable is used by the +.code doc +function. + +.SS* Listener-Related Functions + +.coNP Function @ doc +.synb +.mets (doc << [ symbol ]) +.syne +.desc +The +.code doc +function provides help for the library symbol +.metn symbol . +If information about +.meta symbol +is available in the HTML version of this document, and is indexed, then this +function causes that document to be opened using the system's default web +browser, such that the browser navigates to the appropriate section of +the manual. + +If the +.meta symbol +argument is omitted, then the document is opened without navigating to a +particular section. + +The base URL for the document is configured by the +.code *doc-url* +variable. + +If +.meta symbol +is successfully found, or else not specified, and +.code doc +successfully invokes the URL-opening mechanism, it returns +.codn t . +Otherwise, it throws an error exception. .coNP Function @ quip .synb |