From: Miek Gieben <miekg@atoom.net>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: new builtin 'help'
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:52:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031114145201.GA13597@atoom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031114143421.GD19886@DervishD>
[On 14 Nov, @15:34, DervishD wrote in "Re: new builtin 'help' ..."]
> Hi Miek :)
>
> * Miek Gieben <miekg@atoom.net> 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.
that is an option, but I would have thought that such a path is
set at compile time. So maybe using a configure-var is what is needed.
OTOH using an ENV var is also nice and clean.
> 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...
true, but I felt liking coding in C ;-) (and in the same hold for bash btw,
it could also be a function there)
grtz
Miek
--
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
-- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-14 14:10 Miek Gieben
2003-11-14 14:34 ` DervishD
2003-11-14 14:52 ` Miek Gieben [this message]
2003-11-14 17:01 ` Dan Nelson
2003-11-14 17:24 ` Miek Gieben
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