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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...> - 2004-02-01 13:34:08
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > That doesn't really help. Just because you put them in weird-hacks, it > doesn't mean you don't have to document them (since it's probably a bug > that weird-hacks isn't properly documented in the usage message). I've > never particularly liked weird-hacks, and I don't think we should extend > it. It does help with the usage message, which is what I want to minimise. The amount of documentation in the manual doesn't worry me. > Perhaps we should just add a third set of options: --help-unusual, or > something. Yeah, sounds alright to me. Reducing the size of the descriptions for the unusual ones would help too; not easy, but could use the approach taken for --partial-loads-ok: "too hard to explain here; see manual" N |