Adding help to a Lua command?

[Zwip-Zwap Zapony]

I'm trying to make a console command thing through Lua. It works fine, but... is there a way to make the "help" command spit out info about it? I'd rather have "help test" than "test help", for the sake of mimicking vanilla console commands.

Edit: And nope, adding a console command called "help test" through Lua doesn't do the trick, unless one was to type it with quotes in the console.

 

[Sky The Destroyer]

You need arguments in your command. This is more or less how I did it in SkyLua's help center:

-- Command: gives help.

-- Table of help stuffs to pick from
local helplist = {
test = "Press the A button to jump!",
anothertest = "Press forward to move!"
}

-- Function for the command that will read from the above table based on arguments
local function helpme(player, arg1)
    local information = "Hi there." // Default information printout.

    local typehelp = "Invalid topic."

    if helplist[arg1] // If arg1 is something from the helplist table...
        information = helplist[arg1] // the information printout becomes that helplist item.
    elseif not helplist[arg1] // Otherwise if it's not an item from the helplist table...
    and arg1!=nil // But it's not nothing...
        information = typehelp // Let's help the player out with a message, specified above.
    end

    CONS_Printf(player, information) // Print information for the player. information is modified above.
end

-- Add the above function as a command
COM_AddCommand("help", helpme)

This would do the trick. Inputting "help test" or "help anothertest" without quotation marks works with this method.

 

[Zwip-Zwap Zapony]

You need arguments in your command. This is more or less how I did it in SkyLua's help center:
-snip-
This would do the trick. Inputting "help test" or "help anothertest" without quotation marks works with this method.

Well, the reason I didn't do that sort of thing in the first place was because I didn't want it to replace the help command, making it unusable for other commands. But thanks, I'll try that, and see if it works.
Edit: Nope, both my own, simpler version of it, and your table version replace help and it's variables. *Shrug*

 

[amperbee]

I don't think that's possible without replacing the help command.
You could possibly give a quick help when the first argument is nil, however.

 

[Zwip-Zwap Zapony]

I don't think that's possible without replacing the help command.
You could possibly give a quick help when the first argument is nil, however.

Nope, if the argument is nil, it executes something, and I want it to keep doing that. However, using a wrong argument (less than 0 or not a number) says "type command-name help for help".

Guess I'll just keep it as command-name help, rather than help command-name.

But thanks for the suggestion, though.

 

[Sky The Destroyer]

Yeah, you can't add onto a vanilla console command. You can only replace it.