httpie/cli

Compact help

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#428 opened on Jan 14, 2016

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Description

It would be nice if httpie had a compact help.

I tend to forget the various request item delimiters, but http --help spams the terminal scrollback with lots of unrelated information (I know, I can use less, but meh, I'm lazy). Why not include this in the compact "usage" printed when just running http?

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Examine the current help output generation and add a compact or C flag to show only request item delimiters and basic usage.
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python
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cli
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Python
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80