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Re: run-help: Support for svn and git
- X-seq: zsh-workers 24328
- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: run-help: Support for svn and git
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:02:04 -0800
- In-reply-to: <slrnfnfrql.cgh.joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- References: <slrnfnfrql.cgh.joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Dec 30, 7:19pm, joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
}
} calling run-help for svn or git is often not very helpful.
}
} Would you include this change?
I don't think there's any reason to give git and/or svn any special
treatment that isn't applied to (say) cvs or apt or yum or ztcp or
zftp or any other command that uses "subcommands".
I also don't think it's the right approach to build special knowledge
into run-help of all possible commands that have subcommands.
If we're going to make a change for this it should be one that can
also be applied to "perl someprog.plx" or "sh yourscript.sh".
So, how about the below (which replaces the patch I sent in 243260).
This looks for a function (or alias or command) named "run-help-$1",
e.g. run-help-git or run-help-svn or run-help-perl or whatever. If
one is found, it invokes that, otherwise it invokes "man" as always.
Then one can do:
run-help-svn () {
local cmd_args
cmd_args=( ${@:#-*} )
svn help $cmd_args[1]
}
And something similar for git.
Of course at this point we ought to add something to the manual (in the
contributions section, perhaps?) about the run-help function and its,
um, helpers.
Index: Functions/Misc/run-help
===================================================================
diff -c -r1.3 run-help
--- Functions/Misc/run-help 30 May 2007 03:36:56 -0000 1.3
+++ Functions/Misc/run-help 31 Dec 2007 02:51:44 -0000
@@ -85,7 +85,20 @@
man zshmisc
;;
(*)
- ((! didman++)) && man $@
+ set -- $@:t
+ if ((! didman++))
+ then
+ if whence -w "run-help-$1" >/dev/null
+ then
+ local cmd_args
+ builtin getln cmd_args
+ builtin print -z "$cmd_args"
+ cmd_args=( ${${(z)cmd_args}[2,-1]} )
+ eval "run-help-$1 $cmd_args[@]"
+ else
+ man $1
+ fi
+ fi
;;
esac
if ((i < $#places && ! didman))
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