Re: A simple hate today.

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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 09:46 -0700, Tom Duff wrote:
> The way help should work is:
> 
>    At the shell prompt, prepend "man " to the name of the command;
>    hit return;
>    read the help.
> 
> That's how it worked on every BTL UNIX,
> thanks mainly to Doug McIlroy.  It's
> hateful that it doesn't work today.

That's how zsh does it. (Well it prepends run-help which defaults to man
but is user replaceable.)

The zsh help key is meta-H, though you could bind it to F1 if you really
wanted.

These things are not exactly difficult eh? Even gives you your partial
command back to edit after you've finished with man.

Cheers,

Martin.

• Tom Duff 17:46 on 26 May 2006
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