Repurpose `help` command to show help messages
st0012 opened this issue · 1 comments
st0012 commented
We have been printing the deprecation message for help for a while:
[Deprecation] The `help` command will be repurposed to display command help in the future.
For RI document lookup, please use the `show_doc` command instead.
For command help, please use `show_cmds` for now.
For users installing IRB as a gem, they should have been exposed to the warning for a while. However, for users using the bundled IRB, they likely haven't seen it yet.
As a result, we should at least wait for Ruby 3.3 is released to make this change.
Addresses one of the points in #775
nunosilva800 commented
Agreed. I think we can now repurpose help to do what people expect it to do. show_cmds is just not intuitive.