On 10/18/2018 01:12 PM, enh wrote: > Yeah, my assumption was that as long as I'm still in the flags, --help should > work. (But not *anywhere*.)
Most commands never _stop_ accepting flags: ls file file file -l rm file file file -i lib/args.c has ^ to stop at the first non-option argument, and $ grep 'TOY(.*\^.*)' toys/*/*.c -l | wc -l 22 $ grep 'TOY([^^]*)' toys/*/*.c -l | wc -l 224 About 1/10th of the commands use it. (Hence every command accepting -- and the old argument about whether echo should.) > Personally, I often just add --help on the end of what I've already typed if I > get stuck. > > For this specific case, I think in my ideal world, a flag that takes arguments > from a list should probably show that list any time it gets something it > doesn't > understand? But I don't think this is a regression, so I don't think it makes > sense to try to rush something into this release. Weren't you the guy who wanted "see --help" instead of dumping help text all the time? :) So far I think I've only got a list dumper in ps. There's stuff like kill -l and getconf -l that does it too, but that's an option to show the list... But yeah, accepting --help as well as "help" makes sense... Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net