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From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Cc: Frysk Hackers <frysk@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Patch: Implement Info Command
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476A7CC4.5090402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476A781F.2080707@redhat.com>

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Phil Muldoon wrote:
>>
>> Usage: info help <sub-command> - will print out the sub-command's 
>> help. E.g. info help regs
> this comes across as confusing - shouldn't it print information on the 
> help system?  Instead:
>
>   (fhpd) help info sub-command
>
> Andrew
>
That would require the TopLevelCommand help inner-class system to know 
that the command info had help for the sub-command which it doesn't. In 
short, without a refactor of how help works, I do not think what you 
want will work. At least I think, the way help works is very confusing.

Regards

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20 10:57 Phil Muldoon
2007-12-20 11:29 ` Phil Muldoon
2007-12-20 14:12 ` Andrew Cagney
2007-12-20 14:31   ` Phil Muldoon [this message]
2007-12-20 14:35     ` Phil Muldoon

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