On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:40:48PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While my previous message awaits moderator's approval, here is another
> one.
> >
> > $ tmux -h
> > tmux: unknown option -- h
> > usage: tmux [-28lquv] [-c shell-command] [-f file] [-L socket-name]
> > [-S socket-path] [command [flags]]
> > $ tmux --help
> > [exited]
> >
> > What I expected is to find out the command that makes tmux attach to
> > existing session or create new one if no session exists. As you may see,
> > the help output of the command is very poor. It would be very nice to see
> > command line help improved.
>
> The help output is like that of CVS it's contextual to the command you're
> running.
>
You don't use CVS yourself, do you? =)
Mercurial and SVN are much better replacements that fully deprecate CVS,
why not to use them as example?
> See for example:
>
> tmux -dfjfdjlkfdlk
> tmux new -fdjdfjfdl
>
> In the first case, you're receiving the help options for the main tmux
> command itself.
>
> In the second, you're receiving help for the "new" command to tmux.
>
I don't understand what prevents you from executing:
tmux -h
tmux new -h
If you execute hg or svn with '<command> -h' arguments, they will output
command specific help instead of general list of commands. It is very
awesome.
> It's already contextual; we cannot do any more guessing based on what you
> typed, alas.
Guessing? I am not sure why do you want a complicated guessing logic
instead of just properly handling -h, --help option.
> > I also couldn't create a new issue on SF tracker.
>
> In this case, were it to report that; likely just as well.
>
Too complicated phrase for my English. Sorry.
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