The reason is that users expect -h to work as in svn or hg way I described
earlier. A poll is the proof.

-- 
anatoly t.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Nicholas Marriott <
nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> "You don't want to do it" is not a good argument for changing it.
>
> A poll is not going to help. This is not a democracy. You need to give
> reasons.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:26:32AM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> >    Yes. I think it needs to be changed. The other aspect that you
> probably
> >    don't want to change, because you've used to it and therefore it is a
> work
> >    that you're not interested in. I think the only solution here is to
> run a
> >    poll as a proof to show that this behavior really provides a value (or
> >    not).
> >    --
> >    anatoly t.
> >
> >    On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Nicholas Marriott
> >    <[1]nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >      I do not think it needs to change. Do you?
> >
> >      On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:08:36AM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> >      > ** **On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Nicholas Marriott
> >      > ** **<[1][2]nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > ** ** **tmux is a BSD program and traditionally BSD programs do
> not
> >      support -h,
> >      > ** ** **--help or indeed any extended built-in help beyond the
> usage
> >      string. You
> >      > ** ** **should be able to see the tmux help with "man tmux".
> >      >
> >      > ** **That year this tradition comes down from?
> >      > ** **Don't you think that things need to be changed?
> >      > ** **In other word s- do you have arguments to keep the things as
> is
> >      in 201x+?
> >      > ** **--**
> >      > ** **anatoly t.**
> >      >
> >      > References
> >      >
> >      > ** **Visible links
> >      > ** **1. mailto:[3]nicholas.marri...@gmail.com
> >
> > References
> >
> >    Visible links
> >    1. mailto:nicholas.marri...@gmail.com
> >    2. mailto:nicholas.marri...@gmail.com
> >    3. mailto:nicholas.marri...@gmail.com
>
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