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On 25 May 2006, at 3:14 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > Nah, we should allow unicode too. > And I stick to my opinion that -? is asking for help. > That's how I grew up in Unix land. There's a simple solution to this, of course. For all defined single-letter options, handle them appropriately. For all undefined single-letter options, return with help details. -h wouldn't have to be defined or special-cased, because the catchall would catch it. Likewise with -?, and everything else for that matter. Unicode, too! Good software should be helpful wherever possible, not playing some childish call & response game of "no, this is the secret handshake, no wait that is the secret handshake." But then, I've about given up on finding such pragmatic tools... -- Chris Devers P.S. Here's another thought: -h or --help output should confine itself to a 80x20 text box. That box can optionally specify, say, -hv or --help --verbose to provide more unbounded documentation logorrhea, but the default should be short & sweet.There's stuff above here
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