[Ecls-list] --help
Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll
lisp at arrakis.es
Mon Feb 6 02:39:44 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:28 -0800, Greg Pfeil wrote:
> I noticed a little oddity in the behavior of the usage message on the ECL
> command-line.
>
> When I run:
>
> $ ecl --help
>
> The rc file is loaded before printing the message. However, when I give an
> unknown option, like
>
> $ ecl -h
>
> The message is printed without loading the rc file. In a case where there's
> an error in an rc file, this could cause a problem, as --help never gets to
> the help message, while -h does.
>
> I would recommend that the rc file is never loaded when the help option is
> passed.
Implemented in CVS.
Juanjo
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