Excerpts from bugs's message of Thu Jan 24 02:20:30 UTC 2008:
> 
> New submission from Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> When I do "darcs record -h", the most basic and fundamental details about how 
> it
> works immediately scroll off the screen, and I instead see the "Advanced
> options" which is far less likely to be what I need, and is generally the same
> for all the commands. 
> 
> I would suggest that with --help, the last line is just: 
> 
> "Help for advanced options is available through --help-advanced"
> 
> Running "--help-advanced" would behave as --help does now, showing the regular
> and advanced help. 
> 
> Besides the scrolling issue, I think provider shorter, more relevant help by
> default will increase the impression that darcs is simple and easy to use.

What about automatically launching a pager ($PAGER) when the output is a tty?

Note: That's git default

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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