On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 13:06 -0700, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Thus said Richard Hipp on Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:42:29 -0500:
> 
> > 
> > Maybe  I just  need to  improve the  "fossil help  setting"
> > output  to
> > provide some clue about how to get help on individual settings?
> That would be an  improvement as just in responding to  this email I
> had
> to figure out how to get the new settings help because it wasn't
> obvious
> to me that the  domain of settings help has now  entered the same
> domain
> as subcommand help, but it still means that, one has to run a minimum
> of
> 2 commands. With the current state of settings help:
> 
> 1) fossil settings (inspect settings list and pick one interesting)
> 2) fossil help <setting>
> 
> Before, it was easier just to run:
> 
> fossil help settings
> 
> Then scroll up through the output, or use a $PAGER.
> 
> Maybe a  --verbose option to fossil  help settings would make  it so
> one
> can get  all the information in  a single request? Matt,  what would
> you
> think is an improvement?

This is a case where I think the original implementation was ok but
yes, a --full or --verbose would also work. 

> Andy
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