If curl would be written in python I would do it!
But since it's C, with all respect, I don't want to add segfaults and
security risks to it.

Am 25.09.2015 um 13:15 schrieb Daniel Stenberg:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Space One wrote:
>
>> I think this is nice but IMHO it must be apparent / obvious directly
>> via "curl --help".
>
> I'm not sure it "must" be there, but I can see how it could help...
>
>> I won't look at this cheat sheet when I use curl via command line.
>> That's why I suggested grouping the --help output into sections like
>> e.g. HTTP, SSL, FTP, SSH, Connection, ...
>
> I don't think anyone opposes that idea. But since lots of options are
> for multiple protocols or "sections" it really isn't that easy to put
> them in a single specific one. So I'm more in favour of:
>
>> Another idea was to have something like curl --help-topic HTTP which
>> could print an ASCII art like this.
>
> ... yes I agree, and it could show the help output for all options
> that are marked relevant for http. And we could have virtually any
> amount of topics.
>
> We just need someone to implement it! =)
>

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