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RE: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help
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Derek Zhou |
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RE: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:16:11 -0800 |
Alfred,
I was talking about tla help, not --help. I am not sure we are talking
about the same thing.
Derek
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Alfred M. Szmidt
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 3:46 PM
> To: Anders Rune Jensen
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> Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help
>
> 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.
>
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RE: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/19
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help,
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