clap/examples/multicall-busybox.md
Ed Page c90a4eabae fix(help): Make output more dense
In looking at other help output, I noticed that they use two spaces, in
place of clap's 4, and it doesn't suffer from legibility.  If it
doesn't make the output worse, let's go ahead and make it as dense so we
fit more content on the screen.

This is a part of #4132
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See the documentation for [Command::multicall][crate::Command::multicall] for rationale.

This example omits every command except true and false, which are the most trivial to implement,

$ busybox true
? 0

$ busybox false
? 1

Note: without the links setup, we can't demonstrate the multicall behavior

But includes the --install option as an example of why it can be useful for the main program to take arguments that aren't applet subcommands.

$ busybox --install
? failed
...

Though users must pass something:

$ busybox
? failed
Usage: busybox [OPTIONS] [APPLET]

APPLETS:
  true   does nothing successfully
  false  does nothing unsuccessfully
  help   Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
      --install <install>  Install hardlinks for all subcommands in path
  -h, --help               Print help information