From df4ede7229149f9822410c5e0c4860accc79e321 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Griatch <griatch@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:09:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added fix to statetable that has it not add a state-help
 entry if there is no __doc__ string. This is useful if one overwrites a
 global command but wants to retain its original help entry. /Griatch

---
 src/statetable.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/statetable.py b/src/statetable.py
index cbd684634..87d288c3e 100644
--- a/src/statetable.py
+++ b/src/statetable.py
@@ -270,6 +270,13 @@ class StateHelpIndex(object):
         
         if not self.help_index.has_key(state):
             return 
+        if not help_text:
+            # if there is no doc-string, we don't
+            # create any help entry. This can be useful
+            # when overwriting global commands but want
+            # to retain their doc-strings.
+            return 
+
         # produce nicely formatted help entries, taking markup
         # into account.
         topics = helpsystem.edithelp.format_help_entry(topicstr,