lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm     | 2 --
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiHelp.pm | 3 +++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
index eb3ad9e290f9a34da656a8ac3f68a8afaac64fcb..e680f5f0fd2f494d073856f0663d28f2bf446d48 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
@@ -787,8 +787,6 @@ 	my $sig = $self->{opt}->{signal} // 'TERM';
 	kill($sig, $$) or fail($self, "kill($sig, $$): $!");
 }
 
-sub lei_help { _help($_[0]) }
-
 # Shell completion helper.  Used by lei-completion.bash and hopefully
 # other shells.  Try to do as much here as possible to avoid redundancy
 # and improve maintainability.
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiHelp.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiHelp.pm
index be31c2a86247d32c8e9ba2624d82544c6174dea7..9c1b30a1e5662fe068abc7499d065516c1373701 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiHelp.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiHelp.pm
@@ -97,4 +97,7 @@ 	$self->x_it($errmsg ? (1 << 8) : 0); # stderr => failure
 	undef;
 }
 
+# the "lei help" command
+sub lei_help { $_[0]->_help }
+
 1;