From: Dan Harkless Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 20:34:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands got too cute and X-Git-Tag: nmh-1_0~80 X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?p=mmh;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5e6f0bdeffd667c5413ce27c73ea31c04fb9e9cf Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands got too cute and had the option itself print out as "-(help)" in the -help output. I guess the idea was to make reference to the fact that clearly you know about the -help option since you're currently looking at its output. I think it's a bad idea to overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're supposed to indicate what abbreviated prefix of the switch you're allowed to specify. It doesn't make sense to show that you're allowed to "abbreviate" the switch to its entire length. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 749e73c..5bf8953 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +Fri Feb 04 12:29:12 2000 Dan Harkless + + * Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands + got too cute and had the option itself print out as "-(help)" in + the -help output. I guess the idea was to make reference to the + fact that clearly you know about the -help option since you're + currently looking at its output. I think it's a bad idea to + overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're + supposed to indicate what abbreviated prefix of the switch you're + allowed to specify. It doesn't make sense to show that you're + allowed to "abbreviate" the switch to its entire length. + Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless * Applied wesley.craig@umich.edu's KPOP patches. According to him: