GNU bug report logs - #7486
philosophical wishlist

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From: Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: philosophical wishlist
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:47:43 -0300

All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag:
--example

Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples,
functioning as a reminder.

This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org).
R has a command example(9, which is invokes as
example(fun)

and then runs the examples from the help-page of fun.

Extremely usefull!

Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7486: philosophical wishlist
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:03:14 -0700

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On 11/26/2010 08:47 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag:
> --example
> 
> Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples,
> functioning as a reminder.
> 
> This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org).
> R has a command example(9, which is invokes as
> example(fun)
> 
> and then runs the examples from the help-page of fun.
> 
> Extremely usefull!

Thanks for reporting this.  However, you'll need to report this to the
bug-standards <at> gnu.org list to get it accepted into the GNU Coding
Standards before we could reasonably ask all GNU programs to consider
adding this functionality.

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7486: philosophical wishlist
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:28:10 +0200

severity 7486 wishlist
tags 7486 + notabug
thanks

Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag:
> --example
>
> Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples,
> functioning as a reminder.
>
> This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org).
> R has a command example(9, which is invokes as
> example(fun)
>
> and then runs the examples from the help-page of fun.
>
> Extremely usefull!

Thanks for the suggestion.
Marking as notabug/wishlist.

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