# HG changeset patch
# User Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk>
# Date 1220988759 -7200
# Node ID 78341ea65d1675ba81d2a2eae8492aa02cdaa482
# Parent  7da76778dbd7136cfd7cfb013538c6c721290ea4
restructure helptable

When looking up a help topic, the key is now only matched against the
short names for each topic, and not the header. So

  hg help 'Environment Variables'

must be replaced with

  hg help env

diff -r 7da76778dbd7 -r 78341ea65d16 doc/gendoc.py
--- a/doc/gendoc.py	Tue Sep 09 14:43:12 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc/gendoc.py	Tue Sep 09 21:32:39 2008 +0200
@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@
             ui.write(_("    aliases: %s\n\n") % " ".join(d['aliases']))
 
     # print topics
-    for t, doc in helptable:
-        l = t.split("|")
-        section = l[-1]
+    for names, section, doc in helptable:
         underlined(_(section).upper())
         if callable(doc):
             doc = doc()
diff -r 7da76778dbd7 -r 78341ea65d16 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Sep 09 14:43:12 2008 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Sep 09 21:32:39 2008 +0200
@@ -1339,14 +1339,10 @@
             addglobalopts(True)
 
     def helptopic(name):
-        v = None
-        for i, d in help.helptable:
-            l = i.split('|')
-            if name in l:
-                v = i
-                header = l[-1]
-                doc = d
-        if not v:
+        for names, header, doc in help.helptable:
+            if name in names:
+                break
+        else:
             raise cmdutil.UnknownCommand(name)
 
         # description
@@ -1423,9 +1419,8 @@
     if ui.verbose:
         ui.write(_("\nspecial help topics:\n"))
         topics = []
-        for i, d in help.helptable:
-            l = i.split('|')
-            topics.append((", ".join(l[:-1]), l[-1]))
+        for names, header, doc in help.helptable:
+            topics.append((", ".join(names), header))
         topics_len = max([len(s[0]) for s in topics])
         for t, desc in topics:
             ui.write(" %-*s  %s\n" % (topics_len, t, desc))
diff -r 7da76778dbd7 -r 78341ea65d16 mercurial/help.py
--- a/mercurial/help.py	Tue Sep 09 14:43:12 2008 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/help.py	Tue Sep 09 21:32:39 2008 +0200
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
 
 helptable = (
-    ("dates|Date Formats",
+    (["dates"], "Date Formats",
     r'''
     Some commands allow the user to specify a date:
     backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     "-{days}" - within a given number of days of today
     '''),
 
-    ("patterns|File Name Patterns",
+    (["patterns"], "File Name Patterns",
     r'''
     Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more
     files at a time.
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 
     '''),
 
-    ('environment|env|Environment Variables',
+    (['environment', 'env'], 'Environment Variables',
     r'''
 HG::
     Path to the 'hg' executable, automatically passed when running hooks,
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
     appropriately if Mercurial is not installed system-wide.
     '''),
 
-    ('revs|revisions|Specifying Single Revisions',
+    (['revs', 'revisions'], 'Specifying Single Revisions',
     r'''
     Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying individual
     revisions.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
     the first parent.
     '''),
 
-    ('mrevs|multirevs|Specifying Multiple Revisions',
+    (['mrevs', 'multirevs'], 'Specifying Multiple Revisions',
     r'''
     When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be
     specified individually, or provided as a continuous range,