Regarding my suggestion of:

>If you forget this, you can try the back door using a known function name.
>Using MPEX, that's
>
>    /%print cicat.pub.sys;search=cl "ltrim";prev="\ENTRY"
>    \ENTRY=FUNCTIONS
>    LTRIM              Trims left end of string
>    \ENTRY=LTRIM
>    Syntax:     LTRIM(string[,trimstr])
>    Example:    'X'+ltrim(' abc')
>    /

Paul Taffel writes:

>I'm afraid that the [...] solution qualifies as possibly the worst way
>to display MPE help text for a function

With regret, I was not clear in my intent.

The original goal -- how to find the list of available functions --
actually had almost nothing to do with LTRIM() specifically.  I was
just using that as a way to find the keyword for *all* functions.

In the example above, the focus was on the first two lines of results:

   \ENTRY=FUNCTIONS
   LTRIM              Trims left end of string

Here, we see that the one-line description for LTRIM is under the
keyword FUNCTIONS, so :HELP FUNCTIONS is what we want.

Admittedly it qualifies only as a wacky way to get around neither
remembering the keyword FUNCTIONS nor having some other reasonable
way of "getting there from here."

Sorry for the confusion.

--Glenn