Request: cli shortcut for shorthands

[RichardLitt]

Typing npm help 7 config in order to see a list of shorthands is difficult to remember and oddly longwinded. Can there be a shortcut to show these?

[othiym23]

From my comment on #7601:

It makes more sense to me to follow Git's model here and start pushing more of the shortcuts out to the documentation for the subcommands that use the shortcuts, which is something that people have been doing in fits and starts over the last couple months. I also think it would be nice to have Git-style command-line help tailored per subcommand.

Do either of those sound like things you'd be interested in hacking on?

[RichardLitt]

Yeah, I'm down. Sounds good to me. I'll see what I can do.

[RichardLitt]

@othiym23 Is this still an issue, or has npm 2 fixed it? Happy to hack away, back burned it until now.

[othiym23]

It would still be great to have a slightly less terse output for npm --help! If you're just starting it now, I'd probably do it against master / npm@3 (which is veeeerrry close to general release now). Thanks for circling back to this!

[RichardLitt]

That's off of this commit, right? 1569304

I haven't forked off of a tag before, just checking.

[othiym23]

No, just pull down master and target that. (npm@2 is currently being developed off the 2.x branch – apologies for not being clear).