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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: attach help text to subcommands
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:54:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s28aoKkXyTr4Stow-empen9_CUxAWTDi_gcSUpKjMzg6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120608153607.GC10380@burratino>

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>>  Thanks.  I wish we could do something aout USAGE_OPTS_WIDTH and
>>  USAGE_GAP; I stole them from parse-options.
>
> Expose them in parse-options.h?  Or put this functionality in a
> parseopt-related file?
>
> Copy+paste must die. :)

There's many commands that would benefit from this. In addition to
provide a better help for subcommands, this can be used to generate
automatically the shell completion list of subcommands.

Even more; in zsh it would be possible to show this help text directly
in the completion.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04  9:35 [RFC/PATCH] parse-options: introduce parse_subcommands Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-06-04 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-06 14:10   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-06-06 17:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-08  8:56       ` [RFC] notes: attach help text to subcommands Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-06-08 14:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-08 15:28           ` [PATCH] " Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-06-08 15:36             ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-08 15:54               ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2012-06-08 16:34                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-06-13 15:04                   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-06-08 17:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-05 23:32 ` [RFC/PATCH] parse-options: introduce parse_subcommands Jonathan Nieder

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