FWIW 'go help all' is essentially 'go doc go'. On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:46 AM Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As you said, sometimes one is not sure in which X for "go help X" one > might find the information they're looking for. So one can end up > trying several of them before finding the relevant info. I can think > of one way that would alleviate that pain a bit: something like a "go > help all" command that would print all the topics in one go. Makes it > easier to pipe it to grep/less and search for specific things. > > > On 18 October 2016 at 20:54, 'Jaana Burcu Dogan' via golang-nuts > <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hello gophers, > > > > I am going to spend some time on improving the not-documented or > hard-to-use > > parts of the Go tools. I will mainly focus on go build and go test. The > work > > will consist of reorganizing manuals, proposing new subcommands or flags > to > > support commonly used multi-step things and so on. > > > > To give you some concrete examples: > > > > I have been in cases where users cannot find the build flags because they > > are hidden. E.g. > > > > $ go test -help > > test [build/test flags] [packages] [build/test flags & test binary > > flags] > > ... > > > > requires you to know about where the build flags are. Some tools are > > invisible for the newcomers. > > > > The other example is about test coverage. It is so tedious that I need an > > alias. > > > > func gocover() { > > go test -v -coverprofile=coverage.out && go tool cover > > -html=coverage.out > > } > > > > I want to learn more about your experience, aliases, etc to propose > > improvements and work on the most commonly suggested items. I also am > > planning to go through this mailing list, stack overflow and other > channels > > to see the common complaints. > > > > Feel free to reply to this thread or write to me privately. > > > > Thanks, > > JBD > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "golang-nuts" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.