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
next prev parent 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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