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Recursively print whole help? #1535

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dpc opened this issue Aug 26, 2019 · 4 comments
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Recursively print whole help? #1535

dpc opened this issue Aug 26, 2019 · 4 comments
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A-help Area: documentation, including docs.rs, readme, examples, etc... C-enhancement Category: Raise on the bar on expectations S-duplicate Status: Closed as Duplicate

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dpc commented Aug 26, 2019

My app (cargo-crev) used <verb> <subject> <qualifier> convention. Eg. cargo crev query id all. This makes it use a lot of 3-level sub-command nesting, which is tedious for the users to fully discover.

What would be neat is having some form of recursive help, in way similar to how tree command prints a filesystem.

This way user could get long, but full overview of all available commands.
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Sounds like a weird corner case, but maybe...

@CreepySkeleton CreepySkeleton added A-help Area: documentation, including docs.rs, readme, examples, etc... W: after v3 release S-waiting-on-decision Status: Waiting on a go/no-go before implementing and removed W: after v3 release labels Feb 1, 2020
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Not a weird corner case. Man pages are essentially this.

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epage commented Dec 9, 2021

Is this the same request as #1334 ? Can we close this and add the use case to that one?

@epage epage added S-waiting-on-author Status: This is awaiting some action (such as code changes or more information) from the author. C-enhancement Category: Raise on the bar on expectations and removed S-waiting-on-decision Status: Waiting on a go/no-go before implementing labels Dec 9, 2021
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dpc commented Dec 9, 2021 •
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Yes. Seems like the same thing though I want to clarify that "recursive" is important here.

@dpc dpc closed this as completed Dec 9, 2021
@epage epage added S-duplicate Status: Closed as Duplicate and removed S-waiting-on-author Status: This is awaiting some action (such as code changes or more information) from the author. labels Jan 11, 2022
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feat(help): Add flag to recursively print help of all subcommands adamrk/clap
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