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.
help(help/1)
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<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 usingapropos/1. |
Examples
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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() |
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apropos(file). | Display predicates, functions and sections that have `file' (or `File', etc.) in their summary description. |