• Jesse Phillips (19/19) Apr 07 2007 I think it would be a good idea to reduce the output from just typing dm...
• Georg Wrede (7/28) Apr 09 2007 An increasing number of programmers use screens that are more than 25
• Jarrett Billingsley (5/12) Apr 09 2007 True, though I do like the idea of only displaying common flags by typin...

Jesse Phillips <Jesse.K.Phillips+Digitalmars gmail.com> writes:

I think it would be a good idea to reduce the output from just typing dmd.
The list of switches has become become so large that it scrolls the
terminal. I think that when dmd is typed their should just be the most
important information.

* copyright
* usage
* D source file
* -c
* -D
* -d
* --help
* -release
* -v
* -v1
* -w
* -gc

--help could list out the current help. I'm not sure these are the best
choices, but I think simplifying it with the more common ones is a good
idea.

Georg Wrede <georg nospam.org> writes:

Jesse Phillips wrote:
 I think it would be a good idea to reduce the output from just typing dmd.
 The list of switches has become become so large that it scrolls the
 terminal. I think that when dmd is typed their should just be the most
 important information.
 
 * copyright
 * usage
 * D source file
 * -c
 * -D
 * -d
 * --help
 * -release
 * -v
 * -v1
 * -w
 * -gc
 
 --help could list out the current help. I'm not sure these are the best
 choices, but I think simplifying it with the more common ones is a good
 idea.

An increasing number of programmers use screens that are more than 25 
lines high. On Windows you can define your "dos window" to be higher 
quite easily.

Or if this is inconvenient for some reason, then you can type

dmd | more

and it doesn't scroll off-sreen anymore.

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"Georg Wrede" <georg nospam.org> wrote in message 
news:461A1FE8.3020205 nospam.org...
 Jesse Phillips wrote:

 An increasing number of programmers use screens that are more than 25 
 lines high. On Windows you can define your "dos window" to be higher quite 
 easily.

 Or if this is inconvenient for some reason, then you can type

 dmd | more

 and it doesn't scroll off-sreen anymore.

True, though I do like the idea of only displaying common flags by typing 
"dmd", and then have a flag to display all the flags.  This will only become 
more of a problem as DMD gets bigger.