21770 – [DCR] Eclipse should show command line arguments

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Bug 21770 - [DCR] Eclipse should show command line arguments

Summary: [DCR] Eclipse should show command line arguments

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 25334

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	SWT (show other bugs)
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Veronika Irvine
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Duplicates (1):	6031 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2002-07-22 12:19 EDT by Nick Edgar
Modified:	2003-02-21 11:15 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Nick Edgar

2002-07-22 12:19:30 EDT

R2.0

There was a recent newsgroup post "Where is the documentation on command line 
arguments?".
A couple of people pointed him at the relevant doc.
However, this is hard to find.

eclipse.exe should print a summary of the command line arguments if run with -
?, /?, -help, or /help, and this should include a pointer to the appropriate 
section in the doc (and maybe even a URL).

Comment 1 Steve Northover

2002-07-22 15:02:45 EDT

Seems reasonable.  Summary of arguments.

Comment 2 Kevin Cornell

2002-07-22 16:18:00 EDT

*** Bug 6031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Veronika Irvine

2002-09-10 14:39:56 EDT

Nick,

Agreed that having help from the command line would be very nice.  However, the 
launcher is not aware of all the arguements that are possible and further, the 
information will need to be internationalized.

How can we resolve this?  What if Eclipse Main handles the "help" argument and 
prints out the required information?  Can we provide some sort of 
infrastructure for adding new comand line argument documentation?

Comment 4 Veronika Irvine

2003-02-21 11:15:27 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25334 ***