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if man pages and `--help` output were more formal definitions of CLIs, we could make a tool that creates a browsable version of every CLI command that has man pages and/or `--help` text.


In the terminal, you can browse man pages and --help text of every CLI command... Who on earth needs another tool to do it?


my IDE gives me help as I type, allowing me to quickly refer to method lists, near-match methods, docs of such methods

what I envisioned is a similar experience for the CLI tools we've come to know and love

not sure anyone neeeeeeds that, but no-one neeeeded an IDE at first too




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