[w3m-dev-en 00034] BUG: usage text when calling w3m without arguments

From: Christian Weisgerber (w3m-dev-en@mips.rhein-neckar.de)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 17:52:04 CST


If you call w3m without any arguments, you get a usage() output.
By now this help text is longer than 23 lines, which means it
doesn't fit on a standard terminal screen. However, if you try to
direct the usage message into a pager

$ w3m 2>&1 | less

all you get is "w3m: Can't redirect". You can't view the help text
(without going through some contortions)!

Obviously, the check whether stdout has been redirected should come
*after* the help text is printed for a lack of arguments.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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