microsoft / microsoft/terminal
wt --help should print text to terminal, instead of popping open a modal dialog ("Add a CLI executable for interacting with WT")
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
When I run the wt command with the --help parameter, a modal dialog is popped up containing the help text. Instead, I would expect that the help text is printed directly to the terminal and immediately returns control to the user.
The modal dialog is visually disruptive to the terminal workflow, as it appears outside the bounds of the terminal window and doesn't match the terminal styling.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
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Research direction
Start at the wt --help entry point and trace how its help text is currently routed to the modal dialog. Identify the terminal output path and verify that help is printed in the terminal and control returns immediately without opening the dialog.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100