From: Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow.msk@sni.de>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: helpfiles
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 15:30:52 +0300 (MSK) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.971107152608.10099A-100000@itsrm1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199711070914.KAA27367@hydra.ifh.de>
On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Here's the latest version of helpfiles, referred to in what (when sent)
> was an earlier posting.
>
> There are some reflections which go along with it:
> Originally the help files were included, then they were deleted
> partly (I think) to save space and partly because they were hard to keep
> up to date. I've a vague feeling there was some kind of suggestion
> of putting them back in production releases. Could they be automatically
> generated using helpfiles for each release, and perhaps put in a
> separate file? This should be pretty trivial to automate; obviously
> it's not worth doing patch by patch.
>
What abot including these help files in program itself? (That is, for
every command add string with description). These way it is possible
provide help for user-defined commands (from loadable modules). The manual
page for zshbuiltins itself could then be generated from these
descriptions; this way, if some module is added to distribution, it will
be automatically included.
Also, _quite_ fine would be to have this description as separate file
(for modules as well - let's say zsh.msg for zsh, comctl.msg and so on).
It would provide fo easy i18n sometimes ;)
cheers
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1997-11-07 9:14 helpfiles Peter Stephenson
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