New blog post:
"Helpful: Adding Contextual Help to Emacs"
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I'm trying to improve the readability of the --help output from difftastic.
I'm experimenting with making example invocations bold, so they are easier to distinguish from the text.
I'm also trying OSC 8 to make my URLs clickable.
Opinions welcome :)
I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
Trying the nix CLI today, and I'm seriously impressed with the formatting of its --help output.
Indented warnings, italics, bullets, even adding a left border to code snippets! It's a nice reminder to take full advantage of terminal features to help the reader.





