Re: Friendly help for psql

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Why not run help when someone enters "help" (or "HELP ME!") on the
> command line? \? is hardly an easy thing to remember (and some people
> can't be bothered to actually read the screen...)
>

I have applied this patch (attached) with a few modifications. First
you were printing \? help for any string beginning with "help" so
"helplkjasdf" also printed help --- I don't think we want that. I
allowed "help", "help "*, and "help;", so "help select" does work
(prints \?).

I also added \? to the list of \? help options because now someone can
get to \? without typing \?.

Shame we can't make \h more prominent in \? output. I am going to try
to trim down that top help section, but that will a separate patch
posting by me.

Any adjustments?

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