From: dana <dana@dana.is>
To: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
Cc: Chris Nebel <c.nebel@mac.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: zsh built in help features
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:25:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B5326121-5F47-444F-AEA8-D03177DF4334@dana.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33AAF538-777B-4BA3-8587-6DFF7CAE48FC@easesoftware.com>
On 18 Oct 2019, at 07:11, Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> wrote:
> I had found the _run-help script (is that what they are called?) and
> found that HELPDIR needed to be set but then it does an
> anonymous function with magic I don’t yet understand and
> finally falls back to _man.
The functions prefixed with _ are completion functions. The files for the
functions themselves are located elsewhere. To find one you can either run
`whence -v` on it (but it must be loaded first), or do something like the
following:
# Print matching file paths
print -rl - $^fpath/**/run-help(N)
# Print contents of matching files
cat -- $^fpath/**/run-help(N)
(whence/which/where can also print the contents, but again only after the
function is loaded, and they will strip all of the comments and formatting)
dana
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 15:26 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
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 [this message]
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