fish-shell/share/functions/man.fish

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Fish

function man --description "Format and display the on-line manual pages"
# Work around the "builtin" manpage that everything symlinks to,
# by prepending our fish datadir to man. This also ensures that man gives fish's
# man pages priority, without having to put fish's bin directories first in $PATH
# Notice local but exported variable
set -lx MANPATH (string join : $MANPATH)
if test -z "$MANPATH"
type -q manpath; and set MANPATH (command manpath)
end
set -l fish_manpath (dirname $__fish_datadir)/fish/man
if test -d "$fish_manpath" -a -n "$MANPATH"
set MANPATH "$fish_manpath":$MANPATH
# Invoke man with this manpath, and we're done
command man $argv
return
end
# If fish's man pages could not be found, just invoke man normally
command man $argv
end