Of course, you can also decide that tla is not about seducing new users, but just about being useful to those who are currently using it. In this case UI improvements aimed at new users, like this one, are not really worth arguing about.
I'm from this camp. --help should be a reference "manual" for users who are already familiar with a program. To seduce users you should have proper _documentation_, --help (or help in tla's current case) is not such a beast. It is a reference. A new user won't learn how to use a tool by only using --help. But since tla has so many commands being able to only get a sub-group of them is immensly useful, even I will use it once in a while. As for violating the principle of least suprise, I don't see how it does that. I find it more suprising to hide all the information than to showing it by default. As it is now, tla --help, doesn't do squat, it would be like having `tla COMMAND help' (SIC!) showing a message that one should use `tla COMMAND --help' to get brief information about COMMAND. _______________________________________________ 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/
