David Abrahams wrote:
Alexander Nasonov <alnsn@yandex.ru> writes:
./configure --help should be probably explained at the same level of details as 'don't type $' or 'hold down the control key and press "Z"'. It prints more then one standard text screen and you would either teach users to Shift-PageUp, Shift-PageDown (Scroll followed by PageUp/PageDown and then Scroll again on FreeBSD) or use ./configure --help | more.
Hmm, it's hard to do that in a way that will work everywhere. Rene, what about building some kind of "more" functionality into the Boost.Build help system?
Ah, seems like a very bad idea to me. I think writing code that is so platform dependent and is commonly known to be available as the separate utility "more" will create more problems than it would solve. A better idea is to add that functionality to the configure script itself. Just have it figure out a paging program to use to send such output to. Personally I wouldn't add such a thing at all. I would think you would be hard pressed to find Unix users who don't know how to use "more", or use a terminal/shell window with a scroll bar. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo