Re: helpfiles

[Andrej Borsenkow <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>]

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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