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. -- Anders Rune Jensen http://www.cs.auc.dk/~arj/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/62C2D7F0 @ pgp.mit.edu Fingerprint: 6A03 907E 92E1 47EB 4EAB 76B6 068A ACD1 62C2 D7F0
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