In various comments, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > This is actually a good idea.
Thank you :) > Maybe they should tag those questions [mksh] on SE > and I should subscribe that tag there. A lot of the people who type "help" might not actually have questions about mksh: they may instead have questions about how to use head, tail, grep, logcat, or other tools. People who have questions about mksh, and who are SE-savvy, can figure out how to tag the questions [mksh] themselves. And even poorly-tagged questions can be retagged later. Also, it's hard to advise users how to tag their questions inside a small Help screen, especially if some of them have never used SE before. And, if we provide tagging instructions, it may make SE sound like a scary and restrictive place. > “help” is aliased to “man” in most beginner-friendly GNU/Linux > distributions, in /etc/profile usually. Really? Which distros? The "man" command on a line by itself, without specifying a desired manpage, is quite useless for a total newbie. "man ls" is obscure, and "man cat" is useless. "man intro", which ships with many Linux distributions, is pretty useful for newbies, though the initial "DESCRIPTION" section at the top is obscure and may make them give up reading early on. (You can view "man intro" online at <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/intro.1.html>.) But Android doesn't ship a "man" command. > I’m not going to embed long texts like this in the binary. > The embedded customers (Android, OpenWrt, FreeWRT, OpenADK, etc.) > would not like that size increase. Might you be willing to please embed the text in a function in <http://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/src/bin/mksh/dot.mkshrc?rev=HEAD> instead of in the mksh binary? If there exists even one embedded customer who is unhappy with the size increase, they can simply cut it out of their distribution. I suspect, though, that nobody will mind. Anyway, you're better at shell scripting than me. :) > Also, a link to the mksh > docs may be appropriate. How's this? --- start of help --- mksh R50b This is mksh, the MirBSD Korn Shell. You can use a shell to perform advanced administrative and troubleshooting tasks. On Android, you can also use it to capture screenshots and screencasts. To work with files and directories: See <http://www.cs.bu.edu/teaching/unix/reference/commands.html>. To work with Android logs, packages, databases, screencasts, and the like: See <http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html#shellcommands>. To view the mksh homepage and manpage: Please visit <http://mirbsd.de/mksh>. To find out which version of mksh you are using: Enter this command: ( echo $KSH_VERSION ) If you have a question, comment, bug report, or suggestion: On Android: Please visit <http://android.stackexchange.com/>. On other systems: Please visit <http://unix.stackexchange.com/>. --- end of help --- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1366451 Title: "mksh -v" should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mksh/+bug/1366451/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
