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Re: new builtin 'help'

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From: Miek Gieben <miekg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: new builtin 'help'
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:24:08 +0100
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[On 14 Nov, @18:01, Dan wrote in "Re: new builtin 'help' ..."]
> In the last episode (Nov 14), Miek Gieben said:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > after having used bash for 8 years i've switch to zsh. Boy, what a 
> > difference :-)
> > But one of the things i missed was a 'help' builtin function.
> > 
> > So I took the liberty to add it to zsh, I used version 4.0.7 for it.
> 
> You must have missed Functions/Misc/run-help :)  Set HELPDIR, and it
> will look there, or fall back to manpages.

I sure did ;_) that works pretty neat. 

And it is even installed on my debian system by default :)

ah well, it was fun to make the patch,

thanks,
grtz Miek

References:
- new builtin 'help'
  - From: Miek Gieben
- Re: new builtin 'help'
  - From: Dan Nelson

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