function __fish_print_help --description "Print help message for the specified fish function or builtin" # These two expressions take care of underlines (Should be italic) set -l cmd1 s/_\x08'\(.\)'/(set_color --underline)\\1(set_color normal)/g set -l cmd2 s/'\(.\)'\x08_/(set_color --underline)\\1(set_color normal)/g # This expression should take care of bold characters. It's not # waterproof, since it doesn't check that the same character is # used both before and after the backspace, since regular # languages don't allow backreferences. set -l cmd3 s/.\x08'\(.\)'/(set_color --bold)\\1(set_color normal)/g # Combine all expressions in a single variable set -l sed_cmd -e $cmd1 -e $cmd2 -e $cmd3 # Render help output, save output into the variable 'help' set -l help (nroff -man $__fish_datadir/man/$argv.1) set -l lines (count $help) # Print an empty line first echo # Filter and print help printf "%s\n" $help| tail -n (expr $lines - 5) | head -n (expr $lines - 8) | sed $sed_cmd end