Why is needing to behave differently when you pipe annoying? Are you saying it doesn't work? But also FWIW I don't think piping command help output is a common use case.
It's useful if your terminal emulator isn't very good and the scrollback buffer doesn't work. This can happen for any number of reasons.
Or maybe I don't feel like using the mouse, or I want to do something like grep it. There are an unlimited number of reasons I might want that, that's how interfaces like these work.
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Why is needing to behave differently when you pipe annoying? Are you saying it doesn't work? But also FWIW I don't think piping command help output is a common use case.
It's useful if your terminal emulator isn't very good and the scrollback buffer doesn't work. This can happen for any number of reasons.
Or maybe I don't feel like using the mouse, or I want to do something like grep it. There are an unlimited number of reasons I might want that, that's how interfaces like these work.
Are you saying your terminal emulator can't match on text with ansi color modifiers when searching?
Are you going to demand it when you write your program? That seems like a regression from most CLIs with bespoke option parsers I've used.