Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

[Lennart Augustsson]

Sorry, but I'm not always connected to the Internet.  I'd like to be  
able to get flag help easily anyway.

	-- Lennart

On Mar 13, 2007, at 14:28 , Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> Suppose ghc --full-flag-help simply printed the URL
>         http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ 
> flag-reference.html
> Now you can see it in your web browser by clicking on it.
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow- 
> haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org] On
> | Behalf Of Neil Mitchell
> | Sent: 13 March 2007 13:08
> | To: Sittampalam, Ganesh
> | Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
> | Subject: Re: Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?
> |
> | Hi
> |
> | > > What about integrating a complete list into ghc which can  
> accessed by
> | > > ghc --full-flag-help | less ?
> | >
> | > > Sure I can fake it and get that list out of the html  
> documentation. I
> | > > just want to know if someone else would like this flag, too
> | >
> | > I would find it very useful too.
> |
> | Me too. At the same time --help should probably direct the user  
> at the
> | section of the manual which deals with flags, as well as the
> | documentation overview. I always find myself searching for the flags
> | reference
> |
> | Thanks
> |
> | Neil
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