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From: Chris Nebel <c.nebel@mac.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Cc: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
Subject: Re: zsh built in help features
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:54:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <207E1F44-030C-4A1A-B670-B5B07429A623@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP+y1xDmL4Fq_C_GM+HEshEVZtkrf1APdALBMQmp3ktNKijVxQ@mail.gmail.com>

Where in macOS Terminal, “alt” is Escape, so esc-h, unless you’ve turned on “Use Option as Meta Key” in Preferences > Profiles > Keyboard, in which case it’s Option.

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 4:48 PM, Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> you can use the widget run-help after typing a command name on the command
> line. that widget by default should be bind to alt-h. eg:
> type: setopt
> press: alt-h
> 
> cheers
> 
> Il giorno ven 18 ott 2019 alle 00:55 Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> ha
> scritto:
> 
>> I have a newly installed Mac running Catalina with zsh.  It has a file
>> such as /usr/share/zsh/5.7.1/help/setopt which is a help page for setopt.
>> How am I suppose to view that page?  "help setopt" says that help isn't a
>> command.  "setopt --help" doesn't seem to work.
>> 
>> And... I'm also wondering if there are other help features which I've let
>> to discover.
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> --
> Pier Paolo Grassi


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-17 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-17 22:54 Perry Smith
2019-10-17 23:48 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2019-10-17 23:54   ` Chris Nebel [this message]
2019-10-18  0:28     ` Perry Smith
2019-10-18  5:12       ` dana
2019-10-18 12:11         ` Perry Smith
2019-10-18 15:25           ` dana

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