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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help
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Anders Rune Jensen |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help |
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Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:27:28 +0100 |
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 21:38 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> tla help right shows too many commands; more than half of them are
> pretty much useless. I propose that we organize all commands into a
> few levels, like basic, advance, guru and deprecated. By default
> tla help will only show basic level commands. If there is no
> objection, I am going to post a patch.
>
> I object, instead how about something like --help=basic or so? Often
> you do things like --help |grep FOO to just figure out what the heck
> that thing was called. I think it is better that --help always shows
> all non-deprected commands. This is one of those things that irks me
> with gpg since it only lists the commonly used ones. :(
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.
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- [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 <=
- 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