sphinx-quickstart: error: the following arguments are required: PROJECT_DIR

[agzimmerman]

Subject: sphinx-quickstart invocation doc seems incorrect.

Problem

I am trying to use Sphinx (version 1.7) for the first time. I am following the First steps guide and the ReadTheDocs Getting Started guide, both of which say to enter only
sphinx-quickstart

But this returns

usage: sphinx-quickstart [OPTIONS] <PROJECT_DIR>
sphinx-quickstart: error: the following arguments are required: PROJECT_DIR

The docs say "If you omit projectdir, files are generated into current directory by default."

Side note: As an amateur Python developer using Sphinx for the first time, my first assumption would have been that "PROJECT_DIR" would refer to the root directory of my Python project.

Procedure to reproduce the problem

sphinx-quickstart

Error logs / results

usage: sphinx-quickstart [OPTIONS] <PROJECT_DIR>
sphinx-quickstart: error: the following arguments are required: PROJECT_DIR

http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/invocation.html

Expected results

sphinx-quickstart should execute, and begin prompting the user for manual inputs related to various options. See http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/invocation.html

Reproducible project / your project

https://hub.docker.com/r/zimmerman/phaseflow-fenics/

Environment info

• OS: Linux 818a60beed73 4.9.60-linuxkit-aufs Global citations #1 SMP Mon Nov 6 16:00:12 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Python version: Python 3.5.2 (default, Sep 14 2017, 22:51:06) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
• Sphinx version: 1.7.0

[tk0miya]

Sorry for inconvenience. It's a bug of quickstart command.
I just made a bug fix #4621.

Please give path as an argument until fixed.
Thanks,

[tk0miya]

Fixed by #4621
Thank you for reporting!