Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-21 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 8/22/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having the builtin manual all one page has the advantage that you can > navigate to other sections by text search, but the disadvantage that > it is confusing to read, especially in text browsers. In particular, > it is hard to distinguish wh

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-21 Thread Philip Ganchev
Having the builtin manual all one page has the advantage that you can navigate to other sections by text search, but the disadvantage that it is confusing to read, especially in text browsers. In particular, it is hard to distinguish where each builtin's manual section starts and ends, because the

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-15 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 8/15/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/14/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/14/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:43:39PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > > > The documentation is written in Doxygen > > > > [

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Philip Ganchev
On 8/14/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/14/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:43:39PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > > The documentation is written in Doxygen > > > [ ... ] there actually is an option to create > > > man-pages fro

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 8/14/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:43:39PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > The documentation is written in Doxygen > > [ ... ] there actually is an option to create > > man-pages from the documentation. > > great. maybe i'll take a look if the pain

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 8/14/06, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/8/14, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >On 8/14/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>i used: > >> echo "help is being displayed in a window of" $fish_browser > >>which tells me exactly what i want to know

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:05:59PM +0200, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote: > Basic i18n rule of thumb: Refrain from splitting up sentences whenever > you can help it.) yup, good one, grammar rules in some languages may make the initial example hard to get right. greetings, martin. -- cooperativ

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:43:39PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > The documentation is written in Doxygen > [ ... ] there actually is an option to create > man-pages from the documentation. great. maybe i'll take a look if the pain becomes to large. > help is being displayed in x-www-browser >

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen
2006/8/14, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >On 8/14/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>i used: >> echo "help is being displayed in a window of" $fish_browser >>which tells me exactly what i want to know, namely which executable fish >>has found for use. > >help is being displayed

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 8/14/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:06:27PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > You are not the first to comment on the fact that it feels weird that > > the shell launches new windows like this, and I agree. The reason why > > fish doesn't use man-pages

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:06:27PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > You are not the first to comment on the fact that it feels weird that > the shell launches new windows like this, and I agree. The reason why > fish doesn't use man-pages is simple: hyperlinks. Having hyperlinks in > the documenta

Re: [Fish-users] help for builtins

2006-08-14 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 8/13/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 10:11:42PM +0200, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote: > > As far as I can tell is "help" simply a call to "$BROWSER > > /path/to/helpfile", and as such won't work is the BROWSER > > environmental variable isn't set. > > tha