Hi,
in the ticket #1778 Glynn [1] says that:
it would be nice if we could train users to use that so that we can remove the argv[1]==“help” check; although “help” isn’t likely to be particularly common as an option value, I dislike having special cases on principle
But in the manual pages, there is only a help and nothing about --help (e.g. [2]). If the majority shares an opinion that --help is preferred over help than we should change this in the manual pages generation.
I agree that --help is more standard but I use help because no shorter option (such as -h or ?) is available.
Vaclav