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A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust
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Inconsistencies in short helps (`-h`) use of long help #5495

Open epage opened 1 month ago

epage commented 1 month ago

From #5491

location short long notes
before help before_help before_long_help or before_help added in #2008, changed in #2174
command about about long_about or about changed in #1612
arg help help or long_help long_help or help
subcommand about about or long_about about or long_about changed in #2558
after help after_help after_long_help or after_help added in #2008, changed in #2174

The inconsistency in "command about"'s short and "subcommand about" is suspicious

Likely the fallback to long help isn't worth it and dropping it could reduce some overhead. We'd still need the long help to short help fallback.