Improved some commands descriptions

scrapy/commands/genspider.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         return "[options] <name> <domain>"
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Generate new spider based on template passed with -t or --template"
+        return "Generate new spider using pre-defined templates"
 
     def add_options(self, parser):
         ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)

scrapy/commands/parse.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         return "[options] <url>"
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Parse the given URL (using the spider) and print the results"
+        return "Parse URL (using its spider) and print the results"
 
     def add_options(self, parser):
         ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)

scrapy/commands/runspider.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         return "[options] <spider_file>"
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Run a spider"
+        return "Run a self-contained spider (without creating a project)"
 
     def long_desc(self):
         return "Run the spider defined in the given file"

scrapy/commands/settings.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         return "[options]"
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Query Scrapy settings"
+        return "Get settings values"
 
     def add_options(self, parser):
         ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)

scrapy/commands/startproject.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         return "<project_name>"
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Create new project with an initial project template"
+        return "Create new project"
 
     def run(self, args, opts):
         if len(args) != 1:

scrapy/commands/view.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from scrapy.utils.response import open_in_browser
 class Command(fetch.Command):
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Open a URL in browser, as seen by Scrapy"
+        return "Open URL in browser, as seen by Scrapy"
 
     def long_desc(self):
         return "Fetch a URL using the Scrapy downloader and show its " \