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hledger CMD --info will now open CMD's info node, hledger CMD --man will scroll the man page to CMD's section, and hledger help -i/-m/-p TOPIC will do similar. This is not perfectly robust but hopefully will be good enough in practice. Also the help command's long --info/--man/--pager flags have been dropped in favour of -i/-m/-p.
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help\
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Show the hledger user manual in one of several formats,
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optionally positioned at a given TOPIC (if possible).
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TOPIC is any heading, or heading prefix, in the manual.
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Some examples: commands, print, 'auto postings', periodic.
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_FLAGS
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This command shows the user manual built in to this hledger version.
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It can be useful if the correct version of the hledger manual,
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or the usual viewing tools, are not installed on your system.
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By default it uses the best viewer it can find in $PATH, in this order:
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`info`, `man`, $PAGER (unless a topic is specified), `less`, or stdout.
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When run non-interactively, it always uses stdout.
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Or you can select a particular viewer with the
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`-i` (info), `-m` (man), or `-p` (pager) flags.
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