On 12/12/2016 09:14 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
If you're on a command line and type ESC-h, ZLE will find the first word on the line and invoke run-help on it.
Yup, works fine.
Way, way back, that key binding just ran "man" directly; the alternate name was introduced so "man" could be swapped for something smarter. This happened so long ago that shell functions didn't exist yet, so it was done by creating an alias, and it has been that way ever since.
There is no substitute for historical perspective!