The current help information as it would be printed at the command line.

§1. Running Inform7 with -help currently produces the following summary:

inform7: a compiler from source text to Inter code

Usage: inform7 [OPTIONS]

for translating Inform source text to Inter:
  -basic               use Basic Inform language (same as -kit BasicInformKit)
  -case X              make any source links refer to the source in extension example X
  -census              perform an extensions census (default is -no-census)
  -debug               compile with debugging features even on a Release (default is -no-debug)
  -format=X            compile to the format X (default is Inform6/32)
  -o X                 use file X as the compiled output (not for use with -project)
  -project X           work within the Inform project X
  -release             compile a version suitable for a Release build (default is -no-release)
  -rng                 fix the random number generator of the story file (for testing) (default is -no-rng)
  -source X            use file X as the Inform source text

for locating resources in the file system:
  -external X          use X as the user's home for installed material such as extensions
  -internal X          use X as the location of built-in material such as the Standard Rules
  -nest X              add the nest at pathname X to the search list
  -transient X         use X for transient data such as the extensions census

for tweaking code generation from Inter:
  -kit X               include Inter code from the kit called X
  -pipeline X          specify code-generation pipeline by name (default is "compile")
  -pipeline-file X     specify code-generation pipeline as file X
  -variable X          set pipeline variable X (in form name=value)

for testing and debugging inform7:
  -no-census-update    don't update the extensions census (default is -census-update)
  -crash-all           intentionally crash on Problem messages, for backtracing (default is -no-crash-all)
  -diagnostics X       if no problems occur, write diagnostics files to directory X (default is -no-diagnostics)
  -no-index            don't produce an Index (default is -index)
  -no-problems         don't produce (an HTML) Problems report page (default is -problems)
  -no-progress         don't display progress percentages (default is -progress)
  -require-problem X   return 0 unless exactly this Problem message is generated
  -sigils              print Problem message sigils (default is -no-sigils)
  -silence             practice 'silence is golden': print only Unix-style errors (default is -no-silence)
  -test-output X       write output of internal tests to file X

-at X                  specify that this tool is installed at X
-crash                 intentionally crash on internal errors, for backtracing (default is -no-crash)
-fixtime               pretend the time is 11 a.m. on 28 March 2016 for testing (default is -no-fixtime)
-help                  print this help information
-locale X              set locales as 'L=E', L being shell or console, E platform, utf-8 or iso-latin1
-log X                 write the debugging log to include diagnostics on X
-version               print out version number