reopen 640321
tag 640321 - wontfix
severity 640321 minor
retitle 640321 "conkeror: man page does not document that --help causes the
help to be displayed independent of its position"
kthxbye
Hi Luca,
Luca Capello wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:08:52 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Luca Capello wrote:
> >> As the title says, IMHO it is a bug that --help is always recognized as
> >> an option, even when it is the last argument:
> >
> > Despite the conkeror wrapper in Debian has some special handling if
> > and only if --help is the only option (it filters out iceweasel
> > options displayed by xulrunner which don't work in conkeror), I
> > disagree:
> >
> > This is a very common behaviour, a lot of programs do so (e.g. try "ls
> > -ltr --help", "emacs -nw --help" or "vim -fgv --help")
>
> Well, I found this (common) behavior *completely* broken,
I can understand to some degree as I already wondered about this
already with other programs, too. I'm though fine with it and even use
it as feature. :-)
> given that
> again the manual says `PROGRAM [OPTIONS] [FILE]`.
Well, then I should fix the man page (with my upstream hat on ;-).
Reopening. :-)
Kind regards, Axel
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