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- Subject: Re: Help function for lua
- From: Ką Mykolas <kamicc@...>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:55:24 +0200
Agree. Proper documentation is way better than some obscure brief
telnet-like interface or what-not.
Did have some cases where the only way to dump available commands from
high end device was
cycling through autocomplete and checking the output of "!HELP
COMMAND" (which was not very
parsable or self explanatory).
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:49 PM Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:48 AM bil til <flyer31@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > So it would nice, if you could write in Lua:
>
> My own experience with a help system embedded in this way in a tool or programming environment is usually negative. It is just so much easier to have an HTML file with all the documentation in your favorite browser than having to recall "hmm, how do I browse the docs again in this here thing"?
>
