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Old 04-19-2008, 06:27 AM
Bruce Momjian
 
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Default Re: Friendly help for psql

bruce wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
> > command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
> > can't be bothered to actually read the screen...)
> >

>
> I have applied this patch (attached) with a few modifications. First
> you were printing \? help for any string beginning with "help" so
> "helplkjasdf" also printed help --- I don't think we want that. I
> allowed "help", "help "*, and "help;", so "help select" does work
> (prints \?).
>
> I also added \? to the list of \? help options because now someone can
> get to \? without typing \?.
>
> Shame we can't make \h more prominent in \? output. I am going to try
> to trim down that top help section, but that will a separate patch
> posting by me.


Ah, I see now we later agreed to have 'help' just output a suggestion to
use \?. I have expanded on that and removed the mention of the web
site, which seemed odd to be just in the 'help' output. (I added a \h
mention.)

Update patch applied, that also reverses the previous patch.

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