On 07/30/2014 07:48 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/30/14, 2:44 PM, Notes Jonny wrote: >> On 7 Jul 2014 19:47, "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 07/07/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Down wrote: >>>> Hi Jon, >>>> >>>> As is standard with other buitins, umask is documented at `help umask`: >>> >>> That said, POSIX allows, and ksh already supports, the use of --help as >>> an option to ALL builtins. It might be nice if bash were to take a leaf >>> from ksh and add generic support for --help to all builtins, instead of >>> requiring users to remember 'help foo' as yet another item in their >>> arsenal alongside 'info foo', 'man foo', and 'foo --help'. >> >> Sounds good. How best to progress this, as a bugzilla ticket? > > You've already requested it as a new feature. I will evaluate it against > the other requests and implement it if it makes the grade.
FWIW +1 for this feature both to minimize diffs between shells, and to have one less likely barrier hit for the important group that is first time users. cheers, Pádraig.
