fish-shell/share/functions/man.fish

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function man --description "Format and display the on-line manual pages"
# Work around OS X's "builtin" manpage that everything symlinks to,
# by prepending our fish datadir to man. This also ensures that man gives fish's
# man pages priority, without having to put fish's bin directories first in $PATH
# Temporarily set a MANPATH, unless one is set already
if not set -q MANPATH
set -l fish_manpath (dirname $__fish_datadir)/fish/man
if test -d "$fish_manpath"
# Notice local but exported variable
set -lx MANPATH "$fish_manpath":(command manpath)
# Invoke man with this manpath, and we're done
command man $argv
return
end
end
# If MANPATH is set explicitly, or fish's man pages could not be found,
# just invoke man normally
command man $argv
end