[PATCH modular] Change order of help screen.

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Mon Oct 18 05:26:02 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 14:13 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:59:58 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> 
> > From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com>
> > 
> > If the user is using a smaller screen, the command-line options may scroll
> > off leaving only the environment variables. Since the options are probably
> > more interesting to most users, display the environment variables first,
> > followed by the command-line options.
> > 
> Command line options followed by env vars matches configure --help
> output, I think it's better to keep that consistency.  Maybe we should
> have fewer options.  Or people could have scroll buffers.
> 

Julien has a point here. It would be inconsistent with ./configure usage
and we use that a lot.
I had not realized that when I made this suggestion. Sorry for the
trouble.


> Cheers,
> Julien
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