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> On 02/01/2015 9:36 am, "Ertugrul Söylemez" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Feature request 1: Please do your part in saving the software world and > > remove this anti-feature. Don't even consider making it optional. It's > > useless. Remove it. In the future, whenever you think that some > > UX-related automation will make things easier, think again. You are > > most likely wrong. Just look at the huge damage that Microsoft has done > > by assuming that users are complete idiots. > > > > Feature request 2: Also I strongly believe that `--help` should > > absolutely never open a man-page. When we need a manual, we will use > > the `man` command, but in most cases we just need a quick reminder of > > what that one option was called that we're failing to recall, so I would > > much prefer the original purpose of the `--help` option: Print a short > > summary to the terminal. > > > I hope that some people agree with me, and if yes, I will turn these > > > into actual feature requests on Github. I'm also happy to help with > > implementing the latter one, because writing a good `--help` system for > > commands with subcommands is not necessarily easy. > > I agree with your sentiment on both points. > > Luke
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