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Choco with unknown command should show help menu #938

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ferventcoder opened this issue Aug 31, 2016 · 5 comments
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Choco with unknown command should show help menu #938

ferventcoder opened this issue Aug 31, 2016 · 5 comments
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What You Are Seeing?

choco hi outputs - Could not find a command registered that meets 'hi'

What is Expected?

I should see the help menu
@ferventcoder ferventcoder added this to the 0.10.1 milestone Aug 31, 2016
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Thanks for picking this up!

Preferably, I think, it should just show the "Commands" part here and then say something like "Type 'choco /?' for full help". It's supposed to give you a first idea of what you might want to do, so it shouldn't be too much information at once. The full help will almost certainly scroll a page or two in most console windows, and that can be a bit disorienting (I know it is for me).

What about choco without any (attempted) command? I think that should also at least tell you about the /? switch, because while it's the Microsoft command line standard, it's not the most intuitive thing to think of if you don't happen to know that.

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What about choco without any (attempted) command? I think that should also at least tell you about the /? switch, because while it's the Microsoft command line standard, it's not the most intuitive thing to think of if you don't happen to know that.

I believe choco with no arguments is parsed by some tools that use Chocolatey, so I'm not sure about that one.

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Point taken. What about adding a help command as an alias for /?? That would be in line with the usual command style and probably the first thing many people try if they've ever seen a Chocolatey command line before. (Okay, separate issue then, I guess.)

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Created #944. I thought I had an issue created for that. It looks like it was in my reminders list to create an issue for a "help" command.

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Will provide a more actionable message in 0.10.1.

ferventcoder added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 14, 2016
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(GH-938) Suggest choco help on unknown command
99305a6 
When an unknown command is run, provide an actionable message on how to
get help instead of just an error.
ferventcoder added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 14, 2016
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Merge branch 'stable'
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* stable:
  (doc) update generated docs for command reference
  (doc) add source to functions
  (doc) add new line in helper reference
  (GH-935) search/info/list --version
  (doc) provide more awareness about licensed
  (GH-893) Fix: Help Warns Required Elevated Rights
  (GH-959) Fix: Licensed feed cannot be disabled
  (GH-960) Fix: 7z File System Redirection
  (GH-938) Suggest choco help on unknown command
  (doc) Synchronizer/Enhancements to Autouninstaller
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