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cmd/go: help is too noisy #3613

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robpike opened this issue May 11, 2012 · 2 comments
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cmd/go: help is too noisy #3613

robpike opened this issue May 11, 2012 · 2 comments

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robpike commented May 11, 2012

If I mistype a go subcommand, I get a large and mostly unhelpful list of all the legal
commands. I almost never want this and the behavior isn't very go-like. Better would be
something like:

% go installl
go: "installl" is not a valid subcommand.
% 

or perhaps

% go installl
go: "installl" is not a valid subcommand.
Run "go help" for more information.
% 

That way all the text on my screen doesn't scroll off the top.
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rsc commented May 15, 2012

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Status changed to Started.

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rsc commented May 15, 2012

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This issue was closed by revision 0c8f469.

Status changed to Fixed.

rsc added a commit that referenced this issue May 11, 2015
««« backport 5b1e024a5e89
cmd/go: invoke godoc with import path when possible
Also add -n -x flags to doc, fmt, vet.
Also shorten unknown command error.

Fixes #3612.
Fixes #3613.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6211053

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