From 6d0fafdd00c46b7cfb47e3f6fa77322bfd32be3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nebula <nebula@tilde.town>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:18:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] change arguments

---
 README.md |  6 ++++--
 bink.py   | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e03dd5a..d9a6c26 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@ buttons used to navigate the list are similar to `less`. here are the keys you c
 * g: go to top
 * G: go to bottom
 
+`~nebula/bink --help`: returns a link to this page
+
 `~nebula/bink this is my post!` or `~nebula/bink "this is also a post!"` will write all the words passed into it as a post for everyone else to see
 
-`~nebula/bink pipe`: allow standard input to be the post body, eg. `echo "hello world!" | ~nebula/bink pipe`
+`~nebula/bink --pipe`: allow standard input to be the post body, eg. `echo "hello world!" | ~nebula/bink pipe`
 
-`~nebula/bink dump`: dumps all post data to a json object
+`~nebula/bink --dump`: dumps all post data to a json object
 
 ## object logic
 
diff --git a/bink.py b/bink.py
index 430e503..9d45d99 100755
--- a/bink.py
+++ b/bink.py
@@ -50,25 +50,25 @@ def generate_feed(before=None, count=200):
         blogs.append(obj)
     return blogs
 
-if argv[-1] == "--help" or argv[-1] == "help":
-    exit("see https://git.tilde.town/nebula/bink for usage instructions")
-elif argv[-1] == "dump":
-    with open("/dev/stdout", "w") as f:
-        json.dump(generate_feed(), f)
-    exit()
-elif argv[-1] == "pipe":
-    try:
-        with open("/dev/stdin", "r", encoding="UTF-8") as f:
-            body = f.read().strip()
-        if body:
-            create_post(body)
-        exit()
-    except KeyboardInterrupt:
-        exit()
-
 if len(argv) > 1:
-    create_post(" ".join(argv[1:]))
-    exit()
+    if argv[1] == "--help":
+        exit("see https://git.tilde.town/nebula/bink for usage instructions")
+    elif argv[1] == "--dump":
+        with open("/dev/stdout", "w") as f:
+            json.dump(generate_feed(), f)
+        exit()
+    elif argv[1] == "--pipe":
+        try:
+            with open("/dev/stdin", "r", encoding="UTF-8") as f:
+                body = f.read().strip()
+            if body:
+                create_post(body)
+            exit()
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            exit()
+    else:
+        create_post(" ".join(argv[1:]))
+        exit()
 
 import urwid