function __fish_man_page # Get all commandline tokens not starting with "-", up to and including the cursor's set -l args (string match -rv '^-|^$' -- (commandline -cpx && commandline -t)) # If commandline is empty, exit. if not set -q args[1] printf \a return end # Skip leading commands and display the manpage of following command while set -q args[2] and string match -qr -- '^(and|begin|builtin|caffeinate|command|doas|entr|env|exec|if|mosh|nice|not|or|pipenv|prime-run|setsid|sudo|systemd-nspawn|time|watch|while|xargs|.*=.*)$' $args[1] set -e args[1] end # If there are at least two tokens not starting with "-", the second one might be a subcommand. # Try "man first-second" and fall back to "man first" if that doesn't work out. set -l maincmd (path basename $args[1]) # HACK: If stderr is not attached to a terminal `less` (the default pager) # wouldn't use the alternate screen. # But since we don't know what pager it is, and because `man` is totally underspecified, # the best we can do is to *try* the man page, and assume that `man` will return false if it fails. # See #7863. if set -q args[2] and not string match -q -- '*/*' $args[2] and man "$maincmd-$args[2]" &>/dev/null man "$maincmd-$args[2]" else if man "$maincmd" &>/dev/null man "$maincmd" else printf \a end end commandline -f repaint end