The tldr app is in Debian official repos so I installed it with apt tools. From there, it failed me:

$ tldr wg
Downloading tldr pages to ~/.local/share/tldr
tldr: HttpExceptionRequest Request {
  host                 = "tldr.sh"
  port                 = 443
  secure               = True
  requestHeaders       = []
  path                 = "/assets/tldr.zip"
  queryString          = ""
  method               = "GET"
  proxy                = Nothing
  rawBody              = False
  redirectCount        = 10
  responseTimeout      = ResponseTimeoutDefault
  requestVersion       = HTTP/1.1
  proxySecureMode      = ProxySecureWithConnect
}
 (ConnectionFailure Network.Socket.getAddrInfo (called with preferred socket type/protocol: AddrInfo {addrFlags = [], addrFamily = AF_UNSPEC, addrSocketType = Stream, addrProtocol = 0, addrAddress = 0.0.0.0:0, addrCanonName = Nothing}, host name: Just "tldr.sh", service name: Just "443"): does not exist (Temporary failure in name resolution))

Looks like it needs cloud access. My gear only works on Tor, so then I tried it this way:

$ torsocks tldr wg
No tldr entry for wg
$ torsocks tldr wget
No tldr entry for wget
$ torsocks tldr find
No tldr entry for find
$ torsocks tldr rsync
No tldr entry for rsync
$ torsocks tldr -u
Downloading tldr pages to ~/.local/share/tldr
tldr: Data.Binary.Get.runGet at position 4: Did not find end of central directory signature
CallStack (from HasCallStack):
  error, called at libraries/binary/src/Data/Binary/Get.hs:351:5 in binary-0.8.8.0:Data.Binary.Get

Also checked for kmdr but that’s not in the official debian repos, which I try to stick to. I appreciate the tips though.

Really? Zsh expands short parameters to long? My search comes up dry. This is apparently the most comprehensive treatment on the topic:

https://thevaluable.dev/zsh-expansion-guide-example/

I don’t see mention of tool options expanding… just other parameters like variables.

Glad to verify my click bait worked. A doc once told me the pinky toe is getting increasingly smaller and will one day go away. So the next notable evolution may be 4 toes… 2 toenails less to clip!

I suppose UIs will evolve away from keyboards faster than we evolve to have more fingers.