spack help: Reorganize and colorize output#51484
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LGTM. Nice improvement!
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Quality of life and general command discoverability improvement. Commits intended to be rebased.
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spack -H/spack help --allhere, but here are the options before and after:I've tried to consolidate groups and to move things around based on who's likely to use what. e.g.,
developis renamedspack developmentand the things that had to do with other types of development are now inbuildandpackaging.spack help/spack -h/spack -Hinto more intuitive groups-eto the short help