Stop helping!
Read OriginalThis article critiques the common practice of command-line tools printing the entire help text after an error. It argues this is visually overwhelming, buries the error message, and is inefficient for users who may already know the correct syntax. The author advocates for simply showing the error and optionally suggesting the --help command.
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