On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:59 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > C de-Avillez wrote: > > So. Would it be an acceptable idea to add, to the '--help', a warning > > that this is *not* the full documentation? > > > > Say, like: > > > > "This is an abridged documentation. The full documentation for blahblah > > is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and date programs are > > properly installed at your site, the command > > > > info coreutils 'blahblah invocation' > > > > should give you access to the complete manual." > > Is there anyone who's unaware that --help doesn't provide complete > documentation?
I would not expect anyone to *not* know that help output is abridged. But I would rather have them go straight into 'info' than wasting time on 'man', only to be redirected to 'info'. Usually one looks at the '--help' output first. If we redirect on 'man', why not there? Cheers
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