function help --description 'Show help for the fish shell' # Declare variables to set correct scope set -l fish_browser set -l fish_browser_bg set -l h syntax completion editor job-control todo bugs history killring help set h $h color prompt title variables builtin-overview changes expand set h $h expand-variable expand-home expand-brace expand-wildcard set -l help_topics $h expand-command-substitution expand-process # 'help -h' should launch 'help help' if count $argv >/dev/null switch $argv[1] case -h --h --he --hel --help __fish_print_help help return 0 end end # # Find a suitable browser for viewing the help pages. This is needed # by the help function defined below. # set -l graphical_browsers htmlview x-www-browser firefox galeon mozilla konqueror epiphany opera netscape rekonq google-chrome chromium-browser set -l text_browsers htmlview www-browser links elinks lynx w3m if type -q "$BROWSER" # User has manually set a preferred browser, so we respect that set fish_browser $BROWSER # If browser is known to be graphical, put into background if contains -- $BROWSER $graphical_browsers set fish_browser_bg 1 end else # Check for a text-based browser. for i in $text_browsers if type -q -f $i set fish_browser $i break end end # If we are in a graphical environment, check if there is a graphical # browser to use instead. if test "$DISPLAY" -a \( "$XAUTHORITY" = "$HOME/.Xauthority" -o "$XAUTHORITY" = "" \) for i in $graphical_browsers if type -q -f $i set fish_browser $i set fish_browser_bg 1 break end end end # If the OS appears to be Windows (graphical), try to use cygstart if type -q cygstart set fish_browser cygstart # If xdg-open is available, just use that else if type -q xdg-open set fish_browser xdg-open end # On OS X, we go through osascript by default if test (uname) = Darwin if type -q osascript set fish_browser osascript end end end if test -z $fish_browser printf (_ '%s: Could not find a web browser.\n') help printf (_ 'Please set the variable $BROWSER to a suitable browser and try again.\n\n') return 1 end set -l fish_help_item $argv[1] switch "$fish_help_item" case "" set fish_help_page index.html case "." set fish_help_page "commands.html\#source" case globbing set fish_help_page "index.html\#expand" case (__fish_print_commands) set fish_help_page "commands.html\#$fish_help_item" case $help_topics set fish_help_page "index.html\#$fish_help_item" case "*" if type -q -f $fish_help_item # Prefer to use fish's man pages, to avoid # the annoying useless "builtin" man page bash # installs on OS X set -l man_arg "$__fish_datadir/man/man1/$fish_help_item.1" if test -f "$man_arg" man $man_arg return end end set fish_help_page "index.html" end set -l page_url if test -f $__fish_help_dir/index.html # Help is installed, use it set page_url file://$__fish_help_dir/$fish_help_page else # Go to the web. Only include one dot in the version string set -l version_string (echo $FISH_VERSION| cut -d . -f 1,2) set page_url http://fishshell.com/docs/$version_string/$fish_help_page end # OS X /usr/bin/open swallows fragments (anchors), so use osascript # Eval is just a cheesy way of removing the hash escaping if test "$fish_browser" = osascript osascript -e 'open location "'(eval echo $page_url)'"' return end if test $fish_browser_bg switch $fish_browser case 'htmlview' 'x-www-browser' printf (_ 'help: Help is being displayed in your default browser.\n') case '*' printf (_ 'help: Help is being displayed in %s.\n') $fish_browser end eval "$fish_browser $page_url &" else eval $fish_browser $page_url end end