Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help

[Anders Rune Jensen]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 21:38 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    tla help right shows too many commands; more than half of them are
>    pretty much useless. I propose that we organize all commands into a
>    few levels, like basic, advance, guru and deprecated. By default
>    tla help will only show basic level commands.  If there is no
>    objection, I am going to post a patch.
> 
> I object, instead how about something like --help=basic or so?  Often
> you do things like --help |grep FOO to just figure out what the heck
> that thing was called.  I think it is better that --help always shows
> all non-deprected commands.  This is one of those things that irks me
> with gpg since it only lists the commonly used ones. :(

To me help should be optimized for the common case. The common case
would be that the user is only interested in a small segment of the
available commands. So I would do it the other way around: Let help show
the most common ones and add something like --help-full which displays
all commands.

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Anders Rune Jensen
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