Re: [RP] help showing unbound commands?

[Martin Samuelsson]

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.

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?

> Sure, I was just curious as to what you wanted this to achieve. It seems
> as though you think it useful as a reminder of available colon commands?
 
that would be a good way to put it. 

> I know the mutt help screen, for example, includes unbound commands. I
> just haven't really found this useful.

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.

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.