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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: run-help's man arguments
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:03:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906081403.n58E3wQT003509@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090608135410.GA26835@scru.org>

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:52:19AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > It seems I'm using this widget.
> > 
> > 
> > local -a line
> > 
> > line=(${(qq)${(z)BUFFER}})
> > zle push-line
> > BUFFER="run-help ${line}"
> > zle accept-line
> 
> Presumably we can't start doing something like this by default
> because of the default alias to man.

True, although if it seems useful it can be mentioned in the
documentation for the replacement run-help.  Based on recent experience,
I haven't been finding it *that* useful.  With a widget like this,
run-help could be made cleverer in this respect by offering to give help
for words following coproc, noglob, etc.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 11:10 Peter Stephenson
2009-06-05 15:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-06-06  3:52 ` Jun T.
2009-06-06  5:53   ` Bart Schaefer
2009-06-08  8:52     ` Peter Stephenson
2009-06-08 13:54       ` Clint Adams
2009-06-08 14:03         ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2009-06-08 16:06           ` Bart Schaefer
2009-06-08 16:36             ` Peter Stephenson

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