allow ipython help subcommand syntax
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Implementation-wise, simply transforms argv to `ipython subcommand -h` We use git-style subcommands, and should support git-style help to match. As requested by @jdh2358
also recommend `ipython help subcmd` syntax instead of `ipython subcmd -h`
| ipython profile -h # show the help string for the profile subcmd | ||
| ipython help profile # show the help for the profile subcmd | ||
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| ipython notebook # start the IPython notebook |
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can we move this up above profile? or have profile be listed first here (as it is further up in the file) for consistency?
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other than that, looks good and tests still pass here. I've been thinking about how it'd be nice if we actually paged the help, the way git does by default |
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This works exactly as I was hoping. Thanks! |
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reordered per @ivanov's request. |
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allow `ipython help subcommand` syntax We use git-style subcommands, and should support git-style help to match.
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allow `ipython help subcommand` syntax We use git-style subcommands, and should support git-style help to match.
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We use git-style subcommands, and should support git-style help to match.
Implementation-wise, simply transforms
ipython help subcommandtoipython subcommand -hAs requested by @jdh2358