Re: [Fish-users] why fish man pages are only available in fish's man function

2015-05-12 Thread Greg Reagle
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 04:12:02PM +, Sepp Tannhuber wrote: I didn't know that there are fish man pages at all. I use fish from github. I realized that it tries to installman pages fromĀ  share/man/man1But the directory doesn't exist. Do I miss anything? Hi Sepp. In order to get help,

[Fish-users] fish help for command line: 1. big man page 2. using elinks

2015-05-12 Thread Greg Reagle
Reading some of the comments to this list recently, I've been thinking about how to make getting help for fish more easy and convenient to users who like to stay on the command line, for example using man instead of a web browser. What about creating a man page with a name like fish-commands

[Fish-users] why fish man pages are only available in fish's man function

2015-05-12 Thread Greg Reagle
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin wrote: Generally yes, but in this case it surfaced a nasty problem: `man` knows about fish commands because it's a function (`type man`); when you prepend it with /usr/bin/env, it executes /usr/bin/man which fails with the

[Fish-users] functions versus scripts

2015-05-12 Thread Greg Reagle
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin wrote: This is a serious orthogonality fail. Similar things happen whenever functions are used. A lot of things fish uses functions for could better be written as scripts. (would require fish to prepend a dir with its scripts