On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:35:42AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > It would be better to say "info -O emacs" -- since that is the > "standard" synopsis for commands and putting options at the end will > be slightly confusing to users, even though we allow out of order > options.
info emacs -O makes it clear that emacs is not the argument to the option. > I also plan to remove this option from the --help message. > > Please don't, I don't understand why even ... it is a very important > option for users, there is no other mention on how to get to the > invocation menu of a command in the --help output. I didn't think it was very important and potentially confusing for users. If many think that it is a frequently used option it could be added back again. > Instead, how about change this: > > -O, --show-options, --usage go to command-line options node > > into > > -O, --show-options, --usage go to command-line options node for MENU-ITEM > > but also improve the error message slightly, from > > info: No program name given > > to > info: No program name or menu item given for --show-option > These would be improvements, thanks for the suggestions.
