At the moment, you can't run "beagle-query --help" without having a beagle
daemon running. Also, if you run "beagle-query" with no args then it will
attempt to query for nothing at all.

Index: tools/Query.cs
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/beagle/tools/Query.cs,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -B -p -r1.39 Query.cs
--- tools/Query.cs	13 Mar 2005 04:37:38 -0000	1.39
+++ tools/Query.cs	31 Mar 2005 21:12:55 -0000
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ class QueryTool {
 	{
 		Gtk.Application.InitCheck ("beagle-query", ref args);
 
+		if (args.Length == 0 || Array.IndexOf (args, "--help") > -1 || Array.IndexOf (args, "--usage") > -1)
+			PrintUsageAndExit ();
+
 		try {
 			query = Beagle.Factory.NewQuery ();
 		} catch (DBus.DBusException e) {
@@ -190,11 +192,6 @@ class QueryTool {
 				verbose = true;
 				display_hits = false;
 				break;
-
-			case "--help":
-			case "--usage":
-				PrintUsageAndExit ();
-				return;
 
 			default:
 				query.AddTextRaw (args [i]);