From b16daf7009d9b49d3a1cc83b024a1b10409fc848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:48:05 +0200
Subject: help: Added -t option to only search a specific topic

---
 etc/functions/help | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'etc')

diff --git a/etc/functions/help b/etc/functions/help
index a3712f0..aa0c269 100755
--- a/etc/functions/help
+++ b/etc/functions/help
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
 ## wrapper around man, finfo, etc
 ## Usage: help <topic>
 typeset -a methods
-typeset method
+typeset method topic
 typeset -i found check_only all
-methods=(man function builtin apt)
+methods=(man zshfunction zshbuiltin apt)
 
 while [[ $1 == -* ]] {
 	case $1 in
-		-c|--check-only) check_only=1 ;;
 		-a|--all) all=1 ;;
+		-c|--check-only) check_only=1 ;;
+		-t|--topic) topic=$2; shift ;;
 		-|--) shift; break ;;
 		*) echo "unknown option: $1" ;;
 	esac
@@ -17,15 +18,15 @@ while [[ $1 == -* ]] {
 }
 
 function help_check_man      { man -w $1 &> /dev/null }
-function help_check_function { whichf $1 &> /dev/null }
-function help_check_builtin  { (( ${+builtins[$1]} )) }
+function help_check_zshfunction { whichf $1 &> /dev/null }
+function help_check_zshbuiltin  { (( ${+builtins[$1]} )) }
 function help_check_apt {
 	[[ $commands[$1] != ${HOME}* ]] && check_com -c $1 && check_com -c apt-file
 }
 
 function help_show_man       { man $1 }
-function help_show_function  { finfo $1 }
-function help_show_builtin   { man zshbuiltins | less -p "       $1" }
+function help_show_zshfunction  { finfo $1 }
+function help_show_zshbuiltin   { man zshbuiltins | less -p "       $1" }
 function help_show_apt {
 	apt-cache show ${(s/:/)$(apt-file search -F $commands[$1])[1]}
 }
@@ -36,6 +37,9 @@ if [[ -z $1 ]] {
 }
 
 for method in $methods; {
+	if [[ -n $topic && $method != $topic ]] {
+		continue
+	}
 	if help_check_$method $1; then
 		((found++))
 		if ((check_only)) {
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