Re: A simple hate today.

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: A simple hate today.
Date: 19:38 on 25 May 2006
> But the larger point is that an exception occurs (-h is not recognized
> as an option) which triggers an error message.  Given the history of
> -h, why should that error not be help itself, rather than metahelp?

A larger point is that the error message should be helpful no matter WHAT
the option is. What REALLY takes the cake is when "--help" isn't helpful.

The other day I got something like this...

  % foo --help
  You idiot, you need to type "foo --help commands" or "foo --help syntax".

Not literally, but that's the subtext.

HATE
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