From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5769 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2003 14:36:08 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Nov 2003 14:36:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 4149 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2003 14:36:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 19248 Received: (qmail 4106 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2003 14:35:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Nov 2003 14:35:59 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [62.193.203.32] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 14 Nov 2003 14:35:59 -0000 Received: from DervishD.pleyades.net (212.Red-80-35-44.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.35.44.212]) by madrid10.amenworld.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id hAEEZuh15877; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:35:56 +0100 Received: from raul@pleyades.net by DervishD.pleyades.net with local (Exim MTA 2.05) id <1AKf1h-0005BF-00>; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:34:21 +0100 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:34:21 +0100 From: DervishD To: Miek Gieben Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: new builtin 'help' Message-ID: <20031114143421.GD19886@DervishD> Mail-Followup-To: Miek Gieben , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk References: <20031114141015.GA12667@atoom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031114141015.GA12667@atoom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Pleyades User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Hi Miek :) * Miek Gieben dixit: > after having used bash for 8 years i've switch to zsh. Boy, what a > difference :-) Yes ;)) > But one of the things i missed was a 'help' builtin function. Me too! But certainly I can't live without it ;) > It just prints out the files in /usr/share/zsh/help/ when the help > builtin is used. The path is currently hardcoded. And it shouldn't... How about taking it from a environment variable? I mean, this way you can use the help shipped with zsh, or other if you want to. IMHO, and taking into account that I don't decide, of course, is a very good idea... Anyway, this can be implemented in a shell function, is not necessary doing that in a builtin... Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/