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[Feat] Document option --help-text #2361

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BadAssassin opened this issue May 7, 2022 · 2 comments
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[Feat] Document option --help-text #2361

BadAssassin opened this issue May 7, 2022 · 2 comments
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--help-text is an undocumented option for modules that outputs to stdout (stderr is default with --help). This option needs to be documented.

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neteler commented May 9, 2022

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

has been introduced in 8ffa3de.

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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

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

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