No disagreement; the text man page should also be a file in the distribution with a name that suggests its contents.
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:18:20 +0000 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Weber wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:57:10PM +0100, Marc Weber wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I did notice a lot of times that I just didn't remember the name of > >> option X. How to look it up? Walk through html or pdf documentation? > > > > Just printing a link to ghc online docs is not enough because: > > * maybe no internet availible > > * internet slow? > > * You still need to search/ scroll (too much effort) > > * getting help on flags is default behaviour of any linux application > > and most haskell developers are working on this os I think. > > Have you ever tried info bash, info grep, info whatsoever and got > > the result "please visit http:// .. ? > > That's like invoking ghc printing "This is only a fake. Please > > execute realghc instead" > > > > I'd love to implement this. But I might need some time. > > I already know where to start (hacking on ghc intro on the ghc > > documentation site .. ;-) > > > > How should it look like? > > We already have support for man pages, I think we should try to avoid > duplication here. If your GHC man page is installed correctly, then 'man > ghc' > should give you a nice consise list of options (see attached file, and > scripts > in docs/man in a GHC tree). > > So I think if we are to have a 'ghc --full-help' then it should just output > the > man page, as Ketil suggested. But we should make this work and output the > correct man page regardless of whether 'man ghc' works, because you might > have > multiple GHC versions installed, and/or the system might not even have a man > command (Windows). So every GHC installation should include a text version > of > the man page, that should be fairly easy to arrange. > > Cheers, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
