Add a new Pager type that wraps output to an external pager program when
stdout is a TTY, following the same conventions as git. The pager
command is resolved from $PAGER, falling back to `less`. An empty $PAGER
disables paging. If the pager fails to spawn, we fall back to stdout.
Previously, +explain-config wrote directly to stdout with no paging,
which meant long help text would scroll by. Now output is automatically
piped through the user's preferred pager when running interactively. A
--no-pager flag is available to disable this.
The argument iterator's .next() method returns a transient slice of the
command line buffer so we need to make our own copies of these values to
avoid referencing stale memory.
This is a new CLI action that prints an option or keybind's help
documentation to stdout.
ghostty +explain-config font-size
ghostty +explain-config copy_to_clipboard
ghostty +explain-config --option=font-size
ghostty +explain-config --keybind=copy_to_clipboard
The --option and --keybind flags perform a specific lookup. A string
passed as a positional argument attempts to look up the name first as an
option and then as a keybind.
Our vim plugin uses this with &keywordprg, which allows you to look up
the documentation for the config option or keybind under the cursor (K).