diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.hs b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.hs
index 7bf63018b..923fe6f4a 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.hs
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.hs
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ import Hledger.Cli.DocFiles
 
 helpmode = hledgerCommandMode
   $(embedFileRelative "Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.txt")
-  [flagNone ["info"]  (setboolopt "info")  "show the manual with info"
-  ,flagNone ["man"]   (setboolopt "man")   "show the manual with man"
-  ,flagNone ["pager"] (setboolopt "pager") "show the manual with $PAGER or less"
+  [flagNone ["info","i"]  (setboolopt "info")  "show the manual with info"
+  ,flagNone ["man","m"]   (setboolopt "man")   "show the manual with man"
+  ,flagNone ["pager","p"] (setboolopt "pager") "show the manual with $PAGER or less"
   ,flagNone ["help","h"]  (setboolopt "help")  "show this help"
   ]
   []
diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.md b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.md
index aa7736338..8429b672c 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.md
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.md
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ Show any of the hledger manuals.
 
 _FLAGS
 
-The `help` command displays any of the main [hledger user manuals](https://hledger.org/index.html), in one of several ways.
+The `help` command displays any of the main [hledger user manuals](https://hledger.org/index.html), 
+in one of several ways.
 Run it with no argument to list the manuals, or provide a full or partial manual name to select one.
 
 hledger manuals are available in several formats.
 hledger help will use the first of these display methods that it finds: 
 info, man, $PAGER, less, stdout (or when non-interactive, just stdout). 
-You can force a particular viewer with the `--info`, `--man`, `--pager` flags.
+You can force a particular viewer with the `--info/-i`, `--man/-m`, 
+`--pager/-p` flags.
 
 Examples: