On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > 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.
Well, I actually use help(1) more than a shortcut to access quickly the relevant part of the manual than anything else. I regularly find that sailing across the manual is quite slow and annoying, but it's probably just me being lazy. -- Francis
