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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help
From: |
Alfred M\. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:45:48 +0100 |
To me help should be optimized for the common case. The common case
would be that the user is only interested in a small segment of the
available commands. So I would do it the other way around: Let help
show the most common ones and add something like --help-full which
displays all commands.
I still (strongly at that) disagree, a "normal" user might still want
to use some infrequently use command, infact, that is why you use
--help to begin with, you don't remeber a _infrequently_ used command,
or the syntax for it. If it was common, then you wouldn't be issuing
--help! :-) You wouldn't want tar' --help to only list --create,
--versbose, --extract and --file now would you? The default behaviour
for --help should always be to list all non-deprected commands, in my
not so humble opinion.
And for new users, they really should read a manual that shows the
most common commands, which then builds up to the less common ones.
As a quickreference for those, --quick-reference, --help=common,
--help=ref or something could be used. But as a default... Icky. You
use --help to get info on those things you don't remeber.
In other words, the common case for using --help is to get a listing
on infrequently used commands, and not frequently used ones.
- [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Anders Rune Jensen, 2005/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help,
Alfred M\. Szmidt <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Cameron Patrick, 2005/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Daniel Stone, 2005/11/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, David Allouche, 2005/11/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: clean up tla help, Julian T. J. Midgley, 2005/11/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: clean up tla help, David Allouche, 2005/11/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, ams, 2005/11/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Mikhael Goikhman, 2005/11/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/11/23