tmux is an OpenBSD program and they do not typically support long options, and use a man page rather than builtin help or info pages.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 01:47:42AM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Adam <[1]tho...@xteddy.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:13:47PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote: > > Subj. > > > > Tmux is awesome, but I can not use it without Google. For example, I > tried > > to get some version to see if some changes in last releases can be the > > source of weirdness that I am experiencing running irssi under it. > > > > ps26398:~# tmix --version > > Because this isn't GNU. > > You want to say that programs have command line help only because they are > GNU? =) That implies that OS X utilities or Windows utilities can't have > command line help, but that's not true. More that that, all cross-platform > utilities implemented --help option. Check your VCSes. It is de-facto > standard. Not implementing it is a good non-conformist position and I > could support it, but I don't see the reason why. > ** > > There's -V for a version in more recent versions of tmux, and for > everything > else, there's the man page. > > And what does GNU say about man pages? =) > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:tho...@xteddy.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
