Incorrect priority in the processing chain: Quarto complains about unknown options when using unknown commands.

[wlatendresse]

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Bug description

This error is not document-related, but rather points to a problem in the command options processing chain. If an unknown command is entered (for example, due to a typo), the CLI program complains about unknown options.

However, it should actually be complaining about an unknown command, since the options logically belong to the respective commands.

Steps to reproduce

quarto ender ~/Desktop/hello.qmd --output -

Actual behavior

Quarto complains about missing options:

ERROR: Unknown option "--output". Did you mean option "--help"?

Expected behavior

Quarto shall complain about an unknown command instead (here "ender") !

Your environment

• IDE: None, CLI only
• OS: Linux Mint 22.3 (ISO)

Quarto check output

quarto check
Quarto 1.9.29
[✓] Checking environment information...
      Quarto cache location: /home/mint/.cache/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.8.3: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.87.0: OK
      Deno version 2.4.5: OK
      Typst version 0.14.2: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.9.29
      Path: /opt/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)
      Chrome Headless Shell: (not installed)
      VeraPDF: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Tex:  (not detected)

[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
      Chrome:  (not detected)

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........(None)

      Unable to locate an installed version of R.
      Install R from https://cloud.r-project.org/

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.3
      Path: /usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking Julia installation...

[cscheid]

Thanks. This is unfortunately an issue that's upstream of us in how Cliffy creates its error messages. We agree it isn't ideal but we're limited in how we can use our time, and we have other priorities.