From fc2c6f99b4d457751a84f550619b32d96438c241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Hoffman <pablo@pablohoffman.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:34:56 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] updated help of some commands

---
 scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py     | 4 ++--
 scrapy/command/commands/genspider.py | 4 ++--
 scrapy/command/commands/list.py      | 3 ---
 scrapy/command/commands/start.py     | 9 +--------
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py b/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py
index 4bf8ac8e3..eb03f4ec6 100644
--- a/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py
+++ b/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ from scrapy import log
 
 class Command(ScrapyCommand):
     def syntax(self):
-        return "[options] [domain|url] ..."
+        return "[options] <domain|url> ..."
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Run the web scraping engine from the command line"
+        return "Start crawling a domain or URL"
 
     def add_options(self, parser):
         ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
diff --git a/scrapy/command/commands/genspider.py b/scrapy/command/commands/genspider.py
index 3e954908a..f25bfa63a 100644
--- a/scrapy/command/commands/genspider.py
+++ b/scrapy/command/commands/genspider.py
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
     custom_tvars = {}
 
     def syntax(self):
-        return "<spider_name> <spider_domain_name> [--template=template_name]"
+        return "[options] <spider_name> <spider_domain_name>"
 
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Generate new spider based on a predefined template"
+        return "Generate new spider based on template passed with --template"
 
     def add_options(self, parser):
         ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
diff --git a/scrapy/command/commands/list.py b/scrapy/command/commands/list.py
index eba9e7e96..b35bde719 100644
--- a/scrapy/command/commands/list.py
+++ b/scrapy/command/commands/list.py
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ from scrapy.command import ScrapyCommand
 from scrapy.spider import spiders
 
 class Command(ScrapyCommand):
-    def syntax(self):
-        return ""
-    
     def short_desc(self):
         return "List available spiders"
 
diff --git a/scrapy/command/commands/start.py b/scrapy/command/commands/start.py
index f2c0342a7..48f01ee20 100644
--- a/scrapy/command/commands/start.py
+++ b/scrapy/command/commands/start.py
@@ -1,16 +1,9 @@
 from scrapy.command import ScrapyCommand
 from scrapy.core.manager import scrapymanager
 
-
 class Command(ScrapyCommand):
-    def syntax(self):
-        return "[options]"
-
     def short_desc(self):
-        return "Start the Scrapy server"
-
-    def add_options(self, parser):
-        ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
+        return "Start the Scrapy manager but don't run any spider (idle mode)"
 
     def run(self, args, opts):
         scrapymanager.start(*args)