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. :(
A long time ago (around the time that jblack was release manager), I
began cleaning up the tla help text.
My changes appear to be in [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tla--help--1.2
The relevant e-mail thread is "Newbie-ized help", beginning with a
post by jblack on 26 Sep 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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