--- Torgny Bjers <tb@sbbs.se> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dana Luther" <dtluther@mindspring.com>
>
> >
> > Yes, it's your isname. Notice the line which reads
> is_abbrev(str, curtok).
> > Now you get to choose - You can change your isname
> so that you can't use
> the
> > abbreviations (which would affect everthing and is
> not the best idea in my
> > opinion), or you can use an alternate isname for
> your help related
> functions
> > (namely the find_help and the function in the
> hedit which calls isname()
> to
> > decide which help entry to edit).
> > In the hedit patch was a copy of the original
> isname. What I did was copy
> > that in as orig_isname and use that instead of
> isname() in the hedit and
> > find_help. This enables you to have your
> abbreviated name search
> > capabilities for everything else, and use exact
> name comparison for your
> > help files.
> >
> > Maybe not the best solution, but it certainly does
> work. ;)
> >
> > Dana
>
> Great idea... Why didn't I think of that? I
> actually have the old isname
> commented out, I have my bright moments. Knew I
> saved it for some reason,
> just couldn't think of it now, several months later.
> ;) Thanks Dana!
>
> Regards,
> /Torgny
>
>
>
>
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