fish-shell/share/functions/__fish_man_page.fish
Fabian Homborg 1705bd1440 __fish_man_page: Try man before
This is really just `less` being precious and `man` being unspecified.

Fixes #7863.
2021-03-27 09:15:31 +01:00

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function __fish_man_page
# Get all commandline tokens not starting with "-"
set -l args (commandline -po | string match -rv '^-')
# If commandline is empty, exit.
if not set -q args[1]
printf \a
return
end
#Skip `sudo` and display then manpage of following command
while set -q args[2]
and string match -qr -- '^(sudo|.*=.*)$' $args[1]
set -e args[1]
end
# If there are at least two tokens not starting with "-", the second one might be a subcommand.
# Try "man first-second" and fall back to "man first" if that doesn't work out.
set -l maincmd (basename $args[1])
if set -q args[2]
# HACK: If stderr is not attached to a terminal `less` (the default pager)
# wouldn't use the alternate screen.
# But since we don't know what pager it is, and because `man` is totally underspecified,
# the best we can do is to *try* the man page, and assume that `man` will return false if it fails.
# See #7863.
if man "$maincmd-$args[2]" &>/dev/null
man "$maincmd-$args[2]"
else if man "$maincmd" &>/dev/null
man "$maincmd"
else
printf \a
end
else
if man "$maincmd" &>/dev/null
man "$maincmd"
else
printf \a
end
end
commandline -f repaint
end