14 Apr
2013
14 Apr
'13
3:41 a.m.
anatoly techtonik techtonik@gmail.com writes:
Is it interesting to know if people expect -h to work as a --help equivalent by default?
There are too many existing tools that make use of ‘-h’ for other things (e.g. “hostname to connect to”) for me to expect it to mean “help” by default.
If I'm expecting an option to be a short name for “help”, it would be ‘-?’.
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