Inconsistent behaviour between --help and no arguments
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Description
I'm a big fan of Python Fire, it's been a huge help in building my projects. I have a small improvement request: I noticed that when I don't pass any arguments to my Fire program, I get an overview of all options of my class. However, when I pass --help, it only describes the class-level functions and misses out the instance-level ones.
I would love to see consistent behavior between the two approaches, ideally it should print all options of the class in both cases.
Thank you for your time!
[Example](https://github.com/jeanCarloMachado/PythonSearch/blob/improve_webservice/python_search/cli.py#L17) of a personal project.
```
$ python_search
NAME
python_search - Welcome to PythonSearch, An open-source assistant that helps you collect, retrieve and refactor information (and programs) efficiently using Python
SYNOPSIS
python_search - GROUP | COMMAND
DESCRIPTION
Welcome to PythonSearch, An open-source assistant that helps you collect, retrieve and refactor information (and programs) efficiently using Python
GROUPS
GROUP is one of the following:
configuration
The main _configuration of Python Search Everything to customize about the application is configurable via code through this class
COMMANDS
COMMAND is one of the following:
configure_shortcuts
Generate shortcuts for the current configuration
install_missing_dependencies
Install all missing dependencies that cannot be provided through the default installer
new_project
Create a new project in the current directory with the given name
register_new_ui
Starts the UI for collecting a new entry into python search
run_key
Runs an entry given its name or its partial name.
search
Opens the Search UI. Main entrypoint of the application
set_project_location
If you have a python search project already you can specify its location with this command
```
And with the --help with less content
```
$ python_search --help
NAME
python_search - Welcome to PythonSearch, An open-source assistant that helps you collect, retrieve and refactor information (and programs) efficiently using Python
SYNOPSIS
python_search COMMAND |
DESCRIPTION
Welcome to PythonSearch, An open-source assistant that helps you collect, retrieve and refactor information (and programs) efficiently using Python
FLAGS
--configuration=CONFIGURATION
Type: Optional[Optional]
Default: None
COMMANDS
COMMAND is one of the following:
install_missing_dependencies
Install all missing dependencies that cannot be provided through the default installer
new_project
Create a new project in the current directory with the given name
set_project_location
If you have a python search project already you can specify its location with this command
```
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