# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1345834015 14400
# Node ID fbecbce4589835d7e6bd6e96f036bf97be2c6470
# Parent  a0af93de0ba3f2d0ccb7beb60cd76768d68aba92
also return help text as a string when nargin = 0 (bug #37183)

* help.m: Return help text if nargin == 0 && nargout != 0.

diff -r a0af93de0ba3 -r fbecbce45898 scripts/help/help.m
--- a/scripts/help/help.m	Fri Aug 24 11:45:50 2012 -0400
+++ b/scripts/help/help.m	Fri Aug 24 14:46:55 2012 -0400
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
   if (nargin == 0)
 
-    puts ("\n\
+    text = "\n\
   For help with individual commands and functions type\n\
 \n\
     help NAME\n\
@@ -58,7 +58,13 @@
     doc\n\
 \n\
   GNU Octave is supported and developed by its user community.\n\
-  For more information visit http://www.octave.org.\n\n");
+  For more information visit http://www.octave.org.\n\n";
+
+    if (nargout == 0)
+      puts (text);
+    else
+      retval = text;
+    endif
 
   elseif (nargin == 1 && ischar (name))