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WT -? -help --help window should include a link to the command line arguments #4602

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Karl-WE opened this issue Feb 15, 2020 · 1 comment
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@Karl-WE Karl-WE commented Feb 15, 2020

including a perma link into the help window

currently the help output is very basic.

Usually commands in cmd / powershell will not open a Win32 message box for help (except some few like slmgr, msiexec but print it in the console

including a link or output in console session

Please consider to output the help content into the console session and / or include a permanent link to
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/user-docs/UsingCommandlineArguments.md

for further documentation. . This will help new users

currently the output is a Win32 message box.

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wt - the Windows Terminal
Usage: [OPTIONS] [SUBCOMMAND]

Options:
-h,--help Print this help message and exit

Subcommands:
new-tab Create a new tab
split-pane Create a new split pane
focus-tab Move focus to another tab


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@DHowett-MSFT DHowett-MSFT commented Feb 18, 2020

Please consider to output the help content into the console session

This is not possible. Sorry. Second section of #4570 (comment).

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