Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > On 2016-04-28, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: >> One disadvantage is that you have to compose two forms of >> documentation. > > Only if you want two forms of documentation. > > If you add an option to run the help info through a pager, I don't see > how that requires you to compose two forms for documentation. If you > want both plaintext and video help, then yes you'll have to prepare > two forms of documentation.
I wouldn't want --help to output a reference manual. Consider GNU tar: tar --help ==> a list of options man tar ==> a description of the command and the options info tar ==> a user manual Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
