Re: [RP] help showing unbound commands?

[Doug Kearns]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:57:47AM +0100, Martin Samuelsson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:01:06PM +0000, Doug Kearns wrote:
> > I'm not sure how useful the 'help' window is to novices anyway. Perhaps
> > 'help' should just list all the commands with a short description. Then
> > 'bind' without an argument could generate the current help screen with
> > the unbound commands added as well. However, this would break the 'just
> > like screen' model :-)
> 
> that's a bad idea i think. since there are a couple of commands that
> actually do something useful when not given an argument.
 
You've lost me here... Isn't this how you proposed the alias command
should work?

> but giving ":help command" could give help on the specific command i
> think. but adding a complete help browser in rp would be bloat, let's
> spawn off a child process. it's time for rathelp?
> 
> anyone?

Sounds very much like the abomination that is 'info ratpoison' :-)

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> the main reason that isn't useful there is that mutt doesn't provide the
> actual configuration. it shows a text of the default keybindings.
 
It surely does, look again. Try binding one of the unbound commands and
calling help again.

> i would lie if i said i didn't get inspiration from it though. i look up
> colon commands there occasionaly(spl?).
> 
> > Of course, I was just wondering if _you_ actually did something like
> > this and therefore, needed the functionality.
>  
> not yet. but i think there is a buffer size bug or similiar in the
> aliasing code. i'm not sure if it's in current cvs.

More details?

Regards,
Doug