Online Help

Online help provides a fast lookup and browsing facility to this manual. The online manual can show predicate definitions as well as entire sections of the manual.

.BD .C help 0 Equivalent to help(help/1). .C help 1 +What Show specified part of the manual. What is one of:

Name/Arity	give help on specified predicate
Name	give help on named predicate with any arity or C interface function with that name
Section	display specified section. section numbers are dash-separated numbers: 2-3 refers to section 2.3 of the manual. Section numbers are obtained using apropos/1.

Examples

`?- help(assert).`	give help on predicate assert
`?- help(3-4).`	display section 3.4 of the manual
`?- help('PL_retry').`	give help on interface function PL_retry()

.C apropos 1 +Pattern Display all predicates, functions and sections that have Pattern in their name or summary description. Lowercase letters in Pattern also match a corresponding uppercase letter. Example:

?- apropos(file). Display predicates, functions and sections that have `file' (or `File', etc.) in their summary description.

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