As an ldomctl user, I would be happy for usage to be reasonably terse, provided help gives a fuller description - provided the usage mentions the help option.
If your screen does not have scroll back, the solution is a screen program that does. It is not 1978 any more. (Incidentally, do others have a very bad experience with the default terminal when using Sparc[64] consoles? Would the default of TERM=ansi help? Or is there a better solution?) On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 at 12:20, Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 11:20:10AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > The problem is when I'm on screens that don't have scroll-back, those 9 > > lines have scrolled other information off the top, and then I've had to > > repeat the operations, or if not possible, been more frustrated. > Should we change those programs and refer to manual page or show a > synopsis one-liner instead? > > I get the scroll-back argument, but I dare say it's a weak one given > that this is something users can fix most of the time, e.g. by using > tmux. > > I'd really like to have a valuable usage in ldomctl and haven't come up > with a better and still consistent way of doing so. > > ssh-keygen is another good example of long usage that is most probably > not going to change back to a simpler one; I just stumbled over it due > to wrong usage and was therefore reminded of this mail thread. > > What do other (ldomctl) users say? > >
