Your message dated Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:22:12 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Close bug has caused the Debian Bug report #151947, regarding epic4-help: Help system is really bad to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: epic4-help Version: 1:1.1.2-3 Severity: normal The help system seems almost unusable by default. For example, say I want help on "msg": /help msg *** No help available on msg: Use ? for list of topics It turns out, I have to remember that msg is in section 1: /help 1 msg (That is, I have to memorize which section every command is in by memorizing the table of contents) Now, think about this. Say I'm a new user. How am I supposed to know which section msg is in? Say I'm an advanced user. How am I supposed to remember which section of the manual each command is in? There's only one msg command. It has a unique resolution in the help system. Thus, "/help msg" should work. Even if there was more than one match for msg, it should still work, it should just pick one. Think "man" here. How useless/annoying would man be if you had to remember what section each command was in? Previous versions of Epic/ircII had working help systems. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tandu 2.4.18-rc4 #10 Fri May 17 21:25:08 PDT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, seems this problem is no issue any more thus closing this bug. Feel free to reopen in case I might be wrong. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
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