Shell Method Order

[danvega]

Is there a way to order the shell methods when you type help? It doesn't go by name and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the ordering. When I type help I want to give the user something like

1. Menu Option 1
2. Menu Option 2
3. Menu Option 3

[jvalkeal]

Currently no and you're not a first one asking about as just yday @markpollack asked a same question.

This might be a good moment to think about what users want as only thing you can customise is to hide group names(which essentially used for natural sorting for groups). Though it's possible to change antlr's stringtemplate files(which are used for rendering) in build in help command but that's a bit hardcore solution. Replacing existing help command is relatively easy but don't know how many would want to go through that exercise.

• Natural ordering to commands as well(what about reverse ordering?)
• Should there be a custom ordering possible based on some order number?
• Hide something from help(currently only hidden commands are skipped)?

[danvega]

Thank you for clarifying, just wasn't sure if I was missing something. I think what I might do is just print something to the console when the application starts that includes some ascii art + help text and then I can control the output.