Missing information in `elm init` text

[finegeometer]

Quick Summary: When I start a project, I want to know if elm init will create my project in that folder, or a subfolder. That information is not readily available.

Details

You are in a directory that organizes a bunch of separate projects. Which do you do? 1.

elm init

2.

mkdir ProjectName
cd ProjectName
elm init

It's the latter. But this is not obvious from the help text for any of the obvious commands.

• Elm: 0.19.1
• Browser: Irrelevant to this issue.
• Operating System: I'm on Linux, but I suspect this is also irrelevant.

Language Comparison

The answer to this question is not consistent between languages. For instance, in Rust, the correct command sequence is:

cargo new project-name

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