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

[Derek Zhou]

100+ commands confuse the hell out of most people. Should I use rbrowse
or abrowse? get or grab? changes or diff? update or replay? I can go on
and on. We could show everything if the everything is self consistant
and orthogonal; however tla is clearly not the case.
Anyway, in my patch, you can still get all the commands from tla help
-a. Two extra letters shouldn't be that big of a problem? 
Derek     

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfred M. Szmidt [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 12:39 PM
> To: Derek Zhou
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help
> 
>    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. :(
>