handle texinfo macros consistently in help system and manual * macros.texi: New file. Move macro definitions here from octave.texi. * doc/interpreter/Makefile.am (octetc_DATA): Include it in the list. (doc-cache): Pass macros.texi to mk_doc_cache.m. * octave.texi: Include macros.texi. * mk_doc_cache.m, __makeinfo__.m: Copy macros file to makeinfo input instead of handling macros specially. * configure.ac (texi_macros_file): New variable. * build-aux/common.mk (texi_macros_file, do_subst_default_vals): Substitute it. * run-octave.in (TEXIMACROSFILE): New variable. Pass --texi-macros-file to Octave. * defaults.in.h (OCTAVE_DEFAULT_TEXI_MACROS_FILE): New variable. * default.cc (set_default_texi_macros_file): New function. (install_defaults): Call it. * help.cc (Vtexi_macros_file): New variable. (Ftexi_macros_file): New function. * help.h (Vtexi_macros_file): Provide decl. * octave.cc (TEXI_MACROS_FILE_OPTION): New long option value. (long_opts): Include --texi-macros-file in the list. (octave_main): Handle TEXI_MACROS_FILE_OPTION.

syntax: regexp
# The recurrent (^|/) idiom in the regexps below should be understood
# to mean "at any directory" while the ^ idiom means "from the
# project's top-level directory".

# This one gets created by gnulib during the build, contains no Octave
# files.
^gnulib/

# These directories mostly contain cruft during build time, but they
# do contain some Octave code.
^libgnu/
^m4/

# Emacs tools create these
(^|/)TAGS$
(^|/)semantic.cache$

(/|^)Makefile\.in$
^INSTALL$

^aclocal\.m4
^build-.*($|/)
^configure$
^autom4te\.cache($|/)
^config\.h\.in$

# e.g. doc/faq/OctaveFAQ.info
#      doc/interpreter/octave.info-4
^doc/.*\.info(-\d)?$

^doc/\w*/stamp-vti$
^doc/\w*/version\.texi$
^doc/interpreter/images\.mk$

# e.g. liboctave/smx-op-inc.mk
^liboctave/[\w-]*\.mk$

^src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module\.mk$