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[Feat] Document option --help-text

Open BadAssassin opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

--help-text is an undocumented option for modules that outputs to stdout (stderr is default with --help). This option needs to be documented.

BadAssassin avatar May 07 '22 06:05 BadAssassin

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/main/lib/gis/parser.c#L466

has been introduced in 8ffa3de2e2848f62abf88db850fdfbf275cabe2f.

Background

I could trace it back here (found by checking communication in "grass-dev" for the date of the above commit):

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2010-February/049096.html

which leads to the original ticket:

"module help information in machine-readable format" https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/953

neteler avatar May 09 '22 21:05 neteler

FYI, this issue was created as response to #1131.

BadAssassin avatar May 09 '22 21:05 BadAssassin