function __fish_man_page # Get all commandline tokens not starting with "-" set -l args (commandline -po | string match -rv '^-') # If commandline is empty, exit. if not set -q args[1] printf \a return end #Skip leading `sudo`/`command` and display then manpage of following command while set -q args[2] and string match -qr -- '^(sudo|command|.*=.*)$' $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 (basename $args[1]) if set -q args[2] # HACK: If stderr is not attached to a terminal `less` (the default pager) # wouldn't use the alternate screen. # But since we don't know what pager it is, and because `man` is totally underspecified, # the best we can do is to *try* the man page, and assume that `man` will return false if it fails. # See #7863. if man "$maincmd-$args[2]" &>/dev/null man "$maincmd-$args[2]" else if man "$maincmd" &>/dev/null man "$maincmd" else printf \a end else if man "$maincmd" &>/dev/null man "$maincmd" else printf \a end end commandline -f repaint end