On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:37:02AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: > Then maybe an option should be added to 'local' to display the full > description that one can get from the manual, or maybe change the > behaviour of '-m' switch ?
Almost every builtin command has a shorter and less informative description in the shell's 'help' than it does in the manual. The 'help' output is supposed to be a brief reminder of the syntax (e.g. "which option letter was that..."), not a repetition of the entire manual. I do sympathize with the difficulty of finding the relevant information in the manual sometimes, though, especially for builtins that are common words like 'set'.
