Alfred, I was talking about tla help, not --help. I am not sure we are talking about the same thing. Derek
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alfred M. Szmidt > Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 3:46 PM > To: Anders Rune Jensen > Cc: Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help > > To me help should be optimized for the common case. The common case > would be that the user is only interested in a small segment of the > available commands. So I would do it the other way around: Let help > show the most common ones and add something like --help-full which > displays all commands. > > I still (strongly at that) disagree, a "normal" user might still want > to use some infrequently use command, infact, that is why you use > --help to begin with, you don't remeber a _infrequently_ used command, > or the syntax for it. If it was common, then you wouldn't be issuing > --help! :-) You wouldn't want tar' --help to only list --create, > --versbose, --extract and --file now would you? The default behaviour > for --help should always be to list all non-deprected commands, in my > not so humble opinion. > > And for new users, they really should read a manual that shows the > most common commands, which then builds up to the less common ones. > As a quickreference for those, --quick-reference, --help=common, > --help=ref or something could be used. But as a default... Icky. You > use --help to get info on those things you don't remeber. > > In other words, the common case for using --help is to get a listing > on infrequently used commands, and not frequently used ones. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnu-arch-users mailing list > Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users > > GNU arch home page: > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ > _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
