Re: Help command behavior with aliases

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 28,  7:14pm, ( Text in unknown character set UTF-8 not shown ) wrote:
}
} When aliasing a command and running it from CLI, help for the command
} (Escape-H) is called for alias expansion, like in:
} 
} % portupgrade zsh (type Esc-H)
} <manpage for nice appears if you do alias portupgrade='nice portupgrade'>
} 
} Strange and unpleasant as well. Any reason to keep it this way?

Suppose you have

  alias LL='ls -lL'

Do you want run-help to display the man page for "ls", or do you want it
to simply fail because there is no LL command?

However, it's probably possible to rewrite the run-help function so that
it skips command prefixes (coproc, nice, time, etc.) in alias expansions
and displays the help for the following word instead.