Mention the help directive on toplevel startup

ocaml · Oct 20, 2021 · 5a44941 · 5a44941
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@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ Working version
 - #10565: Toplevel value printing: truncate strings only after 8 bytes.
   (Wiktor Kuchta, review by Xavier Leroy)
 
+- #10527: Show "#help;; for help" at toplevel startup
+  (Wiktor Kuchta, review by David Allsopp and Florian Angeletti)
+
 ### Debugging:
 
 - #10517, #10594: when running ocamldebug on a program linked with the

diff --git a/toplevel/toploop.ml b/toplevel/toploop.ml
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ let loop ppf =
   Clflags.debug := true;
   Location.formatter_for_warnings := ppf;
   if not !Clflags.noversion then
-    fprintf ppf "        OCaml version %s%s%s@.@."
+    fprintf ppf "OCaml version %s%s%s@.Enter #help;; for help.@.@."
       Config.version
       (if Topeval.implementation_label = "" then "" else " - ")
       Topeval.implementation_label;