Re: Unhelpful "--help" output

[Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Here is what I propose:
>
> - In the case of commands that offer sub-commands, remove *all* the
> options from the help output of the main command (e.g. "guix system
> --help"), and only showing the list of available sub-commands.
>
> - For "guix [command] [sub-command] --help" show only options to this
>   sub-command.
>
> - optionally, group all generic options (e.g. --system, --help,
>   --version, etc) under a single heading.
>
> What do you think?

Yes, please!  As a user of noman.el (i.e., a frequent user of --help)
this would be a tremendous improvement over the current implementation.

-- 
Suhail