Or is there maybe a way to set the pager for all help related queries to some command? I’m using bat and would like to pipe all --help through | bat --language=help by default for the syntax highlighting and colored output… Or if you know a lower effort way to color the output of --help let me know.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    set -x configures the running process, your shell. This is a posix standard flag. See https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html

    there has to be a hook somewhere for every command that executes

    Why do think this? I’m not aware of any shells that have such a feature. I’m not saying it couldn’t be done, but it would be a new feature.

    I like the other suggestion of having a wrapper script that does what you need.

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I don’t mind the idea of a wrapper it is just that most of the time, I’m looking at the last command, backspacing and then adding --help. After thinking about it, I will likely go the wrapper route, but add arguments that use the last command in terminal history automatically so that typing help- with no args runs a --help flag on that last command, 2::5 would add additional flags or arguments from the last command before --help and help- with any other args calls those instead of using history.