Improve help docs

Also changes `--filter` argument to "expression" to coincide with some other commands' help text e.g., `--jq`.
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Heath Stewart 2024-10-09 08:56:13 -07:00
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@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/MakeNowJust/heredoc"
"github.com/cli/cli/v2/internal/gh"
"github.com/cli/cli/v2/internal/tableprinter"
"github.com/cli/cli/v2/internal/text"
@ -39,8 +40,24 @@ func NewCmdList(f *cmdutil.Factory, runF func(*ListOptions) error) *cobra.Comman
var flagFilter string
cmd := &cobra.Command{
Use: "list",
Short: "List your gists",
Use: "list",
Short: "List your gists",
Long: heredoc.Docf(`
List gists from your user account.
You can use a regular expression to filter the description, file names,
or even the content of files in the gist. See https://pkg.go.dev/regexp/syntax
for the regular expression syntax you can pass to %[1]s--filter%[1]s. Pass
%[1]s--include-content%[1]s to also search the content of files noting that
this will take longer since all files' content is fetched.
`, "`"),
Example: heredoc.Doc(`
# list all secret gists from your user account
$ gh gist list --secret
# find all gists from your user account mentioning "octo" anywhere
$ gh gist list --filter octo --include-content
`),
Aliases: []string{"ls"},
Args: cobra.NoArgs,
RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
@ -71,7 +88,7 @@ func NewCmdList(f *cmdutil.Factory, runF func(*ListOptions) error) *cobra.Comman
cmd.Flags().IntVarP(&opts.Limit, "limit", "L", 10, "Maximum number of gists to fetch")
cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flagPublic, "public", false, "Show only public gists")
cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&flagSecret, "secret", false, "Show only secret gists")
cmd.Flags().StringVar(&flagFilter, "filter", "", "Filter gists using a regular expression")
cmd.Flags().StringVar(&flagFilter, "filter", "", "Filter gists using a regular `expression`")
cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.IncludeContent, "include-content", false, "Include gists' file content when filtering")
return cmd