From 2b281e741cda86f0e7539214235139f372764696 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:25:05 +0000
Subject: users/9604: enhance run-help to strip quotes

---
 Functions/Misc/run-help | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Functions/Misc')

diff --git a/Functions/Misc/run-help b/Functions/Misc/run-help
index 4f447b9f0..7dd875842 100644
--- a/Functions/Misc/run-help
+++ b/Functions/Misc/run-help
@@ -33,15 +33,22 @@ then
 fi
 
 # No zsh help; use "whence" to figure out where else we might look
-local what places newline='
+local what places noalias newline='
 '
 integer i=0 didman=0
 
 places=( "${(@f)$(builtin whence -va $1)}" )
+if [[ $places = *"not found"* && $1 != ${(Q)1} ]]; then
+  # Different when unquoted, so try stripping quotes.
+  places=( "${(@f)$(builtin whence -va ${(Q)1})}" )
+  # Quotation is significant to aliases, so suppress lookup.
+  noalias=1
+fi
 
 while ((i++ < $#places))
 do
     what=$places[$i]
+    [[ -n $noalias && $what = *" is an alias "* ]] && continue
     builtin print -r $what
     case $what in
     (*( is an alias)*)
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