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In article <DJM.91Oct3003216@frob.eng.umd.edu>, djm@eng (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
>For parsing command line options to a new program, use the GNU
>getopt_long function.  This means that long-named options will start
>with a `+' instead of `-'.
>
>I don't think programs, particularly command line utilities, should
>have extensive help strings compiled into them.  That's what the Info
>system is for.  So I am wary of "help" options.  It makes the binaries
>bloat and is hard to change and browse.  (I do not like bash's builtin help.)

Has there been specific plans to have a way to call the documentation
from the shell (or programs)?  Something like:

ls +format<HELP>

with perhaps ^H or something else as the help key would call emacs or
info to show documentation on ls option +format.  This could in simple
cases be done via the shell, for more complicated cases the shell
could call the program with `ls +help +format' which would call an
info reader.

//Jyrki