Wrote a better short help.

diff --git a/selector.cc b/selector.cc
index 31bf262..51333b4 100644 (file)
--- a/selector.cc
+++ b/selector.cc
@@ -500,20 +500,24 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
          << "Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>."
          << endl
          << endl
-         << argv[0]
-         << " [-h]"
-         << " [-v]"
-         << " [-m]"
-         << " [-d]"
-         << " [-e]"
-         << " [-b]"
-         << " [-z]"
-         << " [-i]"
-         << " [-c <fg modeline> <bg modeline> <fg highlight> <bg highlight>]"
-         << " [-o <output filename>]"
-         << " [-s <pattern separator>]"
-         << " [-l <max number of lines>]"
-         << " -f <input filename>"
+         << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " [options] -f <file>" << endl
+         << endl
+         << " -h      show this help" << endl
+         << " -v      inject the selection in the tty" << endl
+         << " -m      monochrome mode" << endl
+         << " -d      remove duplicated lines" << endl
+         << " -e      regexp mode when starting" << endl
+         << " -b      remove the bash history line prefix" << endl
+         << " -z      remove the zsh history line prefix" << endl
+         << " -i      invert the line order" << endl
+         << " -c <fg modeline> <bg modeline> <fg highlight> <bg highlight>" << endl
+         << "         set the display colors" << endl
+         << " -o <output filename>" << endl
+         << "         set a file to write the selected line to" << endl
+         << " -s <pattern separator>" << endl
+         << "         set the symbol to separate substrings in the pattern" << endl
+         << " -l <max number of lines>" << endl
+         << "         set the maximum number of lines to take into account" << endl
          << endl;
 
     exit(error);