[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] allow multiple help clauses on the command line

[Attila Kinali]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:46:16 -0400
kiriuja <mplayer-patches at en-directo.net> wrote:

> > alias 'mplayer -vo help -ao help -ac help -vc help -pphelp -af help
> > -vfm help -vf help -afm help -fstype help'='man mplayer'
> 
> I guess I should've been more clear. man mplayer is for users. This
> patch is meant to help MPlayer-based frontends, scripts, etc. to get
> the lists of stuff actually available in a given MPlayer installation
> by running MPlayer only once instead of a dozen times like it is now.

Then it would be better to have one switch -show-all-help or something 
like that, which prints all help pages in a specific order in a way
that can be easily parsed. I think this way would clutter the code much less.

				Attila Kinali

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