Why does help contain invalid commands?

For example,

help text

contains "Execute GET(T), where T is a text object, to see a list of text object properties and their current values."

T=text(1,1,'test');
GET(T);

This will get you, "Undefined function or variable 'GET'.

Did you mean:

>> get(T)

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

historical . There was a time when commands were not case sensitive and uppercase was used in the documentation to set command names apart from regular text. Really the documentation should be changed though as you are right that it is incorrect now .