Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-14 Thread Ketil Malde
Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose ghc --full-flag-help simply printed the URL http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html Or suppose it did 'system(man ghc)'? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints

Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-14 Thread Seth Kurtzberg
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 + 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

Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-14 Thread Marc Weber
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:18:20AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: 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

Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-14 Thread John Meacham
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:18:20AM +, Simon Marlow wrote: 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

Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Marc Weber
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? This forces me launching either firefox, entering shortcut odocghc (pointing to ghc help) ... HTML help ... flag reference .. which subtopic to look at?

RE: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
What about integrating a complete list into ghc which can accessed by ghc --full-flag-help | less ? Sure I can fake it and get that list out of the html documentation. I just want to know if someone else would like this flag, too I would find it very useful too. Ganesh

Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi What about integrating a complete list into ghc which can accessed by ghc --full-flag-help | less ? Sure I can fake it and get that list out of the html documentation. I just want to know if someone else would like this flag, too I would find it very useful too. Me too. At the same

RE: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Of Neil Mitchell | Sent: 13 March 2007 13:08 | To: Sittampalam, Ganesh | Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ? | | Hi | | What about integrating a complete list into ghc which can accessed by | ghc --full-flag-help | less ? | | Sure I can

Re[2]: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 5:28:30 PM, you wrote: Suppose ghc --full-flag-help simply printed the URL http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html Now you can see it in your web browser by clicking on it. my usual warning: not anyone has 24h

RE: Re[2]: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Suppose ghc --full-flag-help simply printed the URL | | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html | Now you can see it in your web browser by clicking on it. | | my usual warning: not anyone has 24h internet connection. i've | switched to adsl just 1 month

Re: Re[2]: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Claus Reinke
| Suppose ghc --full-flag-help simply printed the URL | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/flag-reference.html | Now you can see it in your web browser by clicking on it. Indeed, the installed version would be much better it would indeed be kind of nice if ghc (perhaps

Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Lennart Augustsson
@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ? | | Hi | | What about integrating a complete list into ghc which can accessed by | ghc --full-flag-help | less ? | | Sure I can fake it and get that list out of the html documentation. I | just want to know if someone

Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Pepe Iborra
: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ? | | Hi | | What about integrating a complete list into ghc which can accessed by | ghc --full-flag-help | less ? | | Sure I can fake it and get that list out of the html documentation. I | just

Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

2007-03-13 Thread Marc Weber
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