[PATCH] run-help alias with variables, run-help-git better alias support

["Jörg Sommer" <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

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Hi,

both patches are also available through my repository
https://github.com/jo-so/zsh.git

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run-help: Support variables in aliases

If the alias definition starts with a variable assignment, run-help fails,
because it sees the variable assignment as command. Hence, skip all
variable assignments and noglob|nocorrect thereafter.

Example:

% alias T='LC_ALL=C true'
% run-help T

====================
run-help-git: Print alias and skip shell commands

Print the definition of the git-alias like run-help does for shell
aliases. Git handles an alias starting with ! as a shell command. Hence,
there's no man-page for it.

Bye, Jörg

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From a184bff4e75445150ce75e7e273bd7bc1b0d273c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <a184bff4e75445150ce75e7e273bd7bc1b0d273c.1494259970.git.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Sommer?= <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 17:46:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] run-help: Support variables in aliases

If the alias definition starts with a variable assignment, run-help fails,
because it sees the variable assignment as command. Hence, skip all
variable assignments and noglob|nocorrect thereafter.

Example:

% alias T='LC_ALL=C true'
% run-help T
---
 Functions/Misc/run-help | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Functions/Misc/run-help b/Functions/Misc/run-help
index e351dd6a6..4df689192 100644
--- a/Functions/Misc/run-help
+++ b/Functions/Misc/run-help
@@ -56,13 +56,16 @@ do
     [[ -n $noalias && $what = *" is an alias "* ]] && continue
     builtin print -r $what
     case $what in
-    (*( is an alias for (noglob|nocorrect))*)
-	[[ ${what[(w)7]:t} != ${what[(w)1]} ]] &&
-	  run_help_orig_cmd=${what[(w)1]} run-help ${what[(w)7]:t}
-	;;
     (*( is an alias)*)
-	[[ ${what[(w)6]:t} != ${what[(w)1]} ]] &&
-	  run_help_orig_cmd=${what[(w)1]} run-help ${what[(w)6]:t}
+        local cmd_idx=6
+        while [[ ${what[(w)$cmd_idx]} == *=* ]]
+        do
+            (( ++cmd_idx ))
+        done
+        [[ ${what[(w)$cmd_idx]} == (noglob|nocorrect) ]] &&
+            (( ++cmd_idx ))
+	[[ ${what[(w)$cmd_idx]:t} != ${what[(w)1]} ]] &&
+	  run_help_orig_cmd=${what[(w)1]} run-help ${what[(w)$cmd_idx]:t}
 	;;
     (*( is a * function))
 	case ${what[(w)1]} in
-- 
2.11.0


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From fe825e405b5bd9358718c2e5f1b0ba20b7d7cb9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <fe825e405b5bd9358718c2e5f1b0ba20b7d7cb9a.1494259970.git.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
In-Reply-To: <a184bff4e75445150ce75e7e273bd7bc1b0d273c.1494259970.git.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
References: <a184bff4e75445150ce75e7e273bd7bc1b0d273c.1494259970.git.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Sommer?= <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:05:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] run-help-git: Print alias and skip shell commands

Print the definition of the git-alias like run-help does for shell
aliases. Git handles an alias starting with ! as a shell command. Hence,
there's no man-page for it.
---
 Functions/Misc/run-help-git | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Functions/Misc/run-help-git b/Functions/Misc/run-help-git
index ce94d0d02..3c8e6a150 100644
--- a/Functions/Misc/run-help-git
+++ b/Functions/Misc/run-help-git
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
 else
     local al
     if al=$(git config --get "alias.$1"); then
+        builtin print -r "${run_help_orig_cmd:-git} $1 is a git-alias for $al"
+        [[ $al == !* ]] && return
         1=${al%% *}
     fi
     man git-$1
-- 
2.11.0


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