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Comment by rk06

7 hours ago

I don't think so. If someone runs a tool without args, the tool should do equivalent of "tool --help"

It is bad ux.

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Sammi  6 hours ago

I expect a file formatter to format the files when I call it. Anything else would be surprising to me.

  • rk06  6 hours ago

    a new user should not expected to know whether to use "--info", "--help", or "-info" or "/info"

    A power user can just pass the right params. Besides, it is not that hard to support "--yolo" parameter for that use case

    • aquariusDue  1 hour ago

      I know feels aren't the objective truth but I feel like most people would default to running "new-cli-tool --help" first thing as a learned (defensive) habit. After all quite a bit of stuff that runs in a terminal emulator does something when ran without arguments or flags.