I think it would be a good idea to reduce the output from just typing dmd. The list of switches has become become so large that it scrolls the terminal. I think that when dmd is typed their should just be the most important information.

* copyright
* usage
* D source file
* -c
* -D
* -d
* --help
* -release
* -v
* -v1
* -w
* -gc

--help could list out the current help. I'm not sure these are the best choices, but I think simplifying it with the more common ones is a good idea.

Jesse Phillips wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea to reduce the output from just typing dmd.
> The list of switches has become become so large that it scrolls the
> terminal. I think that when dmd is typed their should just be the most
> important information.
> 
> * copyright
> * usage
> * D source file
> * -c
> * -D
> * -d
> * --help
> * -release
> * -v
> * -v1
> * -w
> * -gc
> 
> --help could list out the current help. I'm not sure these are the best
> choices, but I think simplifying it with the more common ones is a good
> idea.

An increasing number of programmers use screens that are more than 25 lines high. On Windows you can define your "dos window" to be higher quite easily.

Or if this is inconvenient for some reason, then you can type

dmd | more

and it doesn't scroll off-sreen anymore.

"Georg Wrede" <georg@nospam.org> wrote in message news:461A1FE8.3020205@nospam.org...
> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>
> An increasing number of programmers use screens that are more than 25 lines high. On Windows you can define your "dos window" to be higher quite easily.
>
> Or if this is inconvenient for some reason, then you can type
>
> dmd | more
>
> and it doesn't scroll off-sreen anymore.
>

True, though I do like the idea of only displaying common flags by typing "dmd", and then have a flag to display all the flags.  This will only become more of a problem as DMD gets bigger.