[MPlayer-users] mplayer -xxx help

[Ketil Z. Malde]

D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:

> IMHO this whole -xxx help business is nonsense. 

I think it is quite useful for very complex programs, where the man
page (and just --help) easily gets too long.  Works nicely for CVS et
al, and would be really great for tools like rpm ('rpm -q help' would
be nice.)

> It's already hard enough to keep the man page up-to-date.

Okay.  I can definitely sympathise with this.

> Also it will bloat the binary size even more and require more
> translation effort! 

I don't think those are very important, really.  A bit of disk space
is cheap, and let those who need it do the translations.

> The solution is quite simple...just like with all programs, if you
> need help, type man mplayer!

Works for me.  Good built-in help is definitely a plus, however.

-kzm
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