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