1. To make help files for run-help I used: % man -m /usr/local/man zshall | colcrt - | \ perl ~/sys/zsh/zsh-4.3.1/Util/helpfiles But this created files like: A On By
This happens to me too on OS X and ubuntu (debian), so I think it is platform-independent. I too wouldn't mind getting rid of it, as occasionally you get a weird suprise.
2. There are executable scripts in Functions/Misc, however 'make install' is installing them as non-executable files. I used:
Functions in general aren't executable shell scripts (although they often can be used as such). Typically $fpath != $path.