The help is now written to stdout for -h and stderr for an error.

diff --git a/selector.c b/selector.c
index 30f3f19..7dc1848 100644 (file)
--- a/selector.c
+++ b/selector.c
@@ -836,35 +836,43 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   }
 
   if(show_help || error) {
-    fprintf(stderr, "Selector version %s-R%s\n", VERSION, REVISION_NUMBER);
-    fprintf(stderr, "Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>.\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s [options] [<filename1> [<filename2> ...]]\n", argv[0]);
-    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -h      show this help\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -v      inject the selected line in the tty\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -w      quote control characters with ^Qs when using -v\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -d      remove duplicated lines\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -b      remove the bash history line prefix\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -z      remove the zsh history line prefix\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -i      invert the order of lines\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -e      start in regexp mode\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -a      start in case sensitive mode\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -m      monochrome mode\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -q      make a flash instead of a beep on an edition error\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " --      all following arguments are filenames\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -t <title>\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "         add a title in the modeline\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -c <fg modeline> <bg modeline> <fg highlight> <bg highlight>\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "         set the display colors\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -o <output filename>\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "         set a file to write the selected line to\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -s <pattern separator>\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "         set the symbol to separate substrings in the pattern\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -x <label separator>\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "         set the symbol to terminate the label\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, " -l <max number of lines>\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "         set the maximum number of lines to take into account\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+    FILE *out;
+    if(show_help) {
+      out = stdout;
+    } else {
+      out = stderr;
+    }
+
+    fprintf(out, "Selector version %s-R%s\n", VERSION, REVISION_NUMBER);
+    fprintf(out, "Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>.\n");
+    fprintf(out, "\n");
+    fprintf(out, "Usage: %s [options] [<filename1> [<filename2> ...]]\n", argv[0]);
+    fprintf(out, "\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -h      show this help\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -v      inject the selected line in the tty\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -w      quote control characters with ^Qs when using -v\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -d      remove duplicated lines\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -b      remove the bash history line prefix\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -z      remove the zsh history line prefix\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -i      invert the order of lines\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -e      start in regexp mode\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -a      start in case sensitive mode\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -m      monochrome mode\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -q      make a flash instead of a beep on an edition error\n");
+    fprintf(out, " --      all following arguments are filenames\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -t <title>\n");
+    fprintf(out, "         add a title in the modeline\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -c <fg modeline> <bg modeline> <fg highlight> <bg highlight>\n");
+    fprintf(out, "         set the display colors\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -o <output filename>\n");
+    fprintf(out, "         set a file to write the selected line to\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -s <pattern separator>\n");
+    fprintf(out, "         set the symbol to separate substrings in the pattern\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -x <label separator>\n");
+    fprintf(out, "         set the symbol to terminate the label\n");
+    fprintf(out, " -l <max number of lines>\n");
+    fprintf(out, "         set the maximum number of lines to take into account\n");
+    fprintf(out, "\n");
     exit(error);
   }