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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/12] perf tools: Setup pager when printing usage and help
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:30:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446046262-997-4-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446046262-997-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org>

From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

It's annoying to see error or help message when command has many options
like in perf record, report or top.  So setup pager when print parser
error or help message - it should be OK since no UI is enabled at the
parsing time.  The usage_with_options() already disables it by calling
exit_browser() anyway.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445701767-12731-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/parse-options.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c
index b8d98229a8af..eeeed98eb26d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 #define OPT_SHORT 1
 #define OPT_UNSET 2
 
+static struct strbuf error_buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+
 static int opterror(const struct option *opt, const char *reason, int flags)
 {
 	if (flags & OPT_SHORT)
@@ -540,9 +542,11 @@ int parse_options_subcommand(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *o
 		exit(130);
 	default: /* PARSE_OPT_UNKNOWN */
 		if (ctx.argv[0][1] == '-') {
-			error("unknown option `%s'", ctx.argv[0] + 2);
+			strbuf_addf(&error_buf, "unknown option `%s'",
+				    ctx.argv[0] + 2);
 		} else {
-			error("unknown switch `%c'", *ctx.opt);
+			strbuf_addf(&error_buf, "unknown switch `%c'",
+				    *ctx.opt);
 		}
 		usage_with_options(usagestr, options);
 	}
@@ -711,6 +715,13 @@ int usage_with_options_internal(const char * const *usagestr,
 	if (!usagestr)
 		return PARSE_OPT_HELP;
 
+	setup_pager();
+
+	if (strbuf_avail(&error_buf)) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "  Error: %s\n", error_buf.buf);
+		strbuf_release(&error_buf);
+	}
+
 	fprintf(stderr, "\n Usage: %s\n", *usagestr++);
 	while (*usagestr && **usagestr)
 		fprintf(stderr, "    or: %s\n", *usagestr++);
-- 
2.1.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-28 15:30 [GIT PULL 00/12] perf/core improvements and fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 01/12] perf tools: Improve ambiguous option help message Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 02/12] perf report: Rename to --show-cpu-utilization Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 04/12] perf tools: Introduce usage_with_options_msg() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 05/12] perf evsel: Move id_offset out of struct perf_evsel union member Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 06/12] perf cpu_map: Add cpu_map__empty_new function Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 07/12] perf stat: Cache aggregated map entries in extra cpumap Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 08/12] perf tools: Search for more options when passing args to -h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:30 ` [PATCH 09/12] perf symbols: Fix type error when reading a build-id Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:31 ` [PATCH 10/12] perf symbols: we can now read separate debug-info files based on a build ID Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:31 ` [PATCH 11/12] perf tools: Enable pre-event inherit setting by config terms Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-28 15:31 ` [PATCH 12/12] perf symbols: Fix endless loop in dso__split_kallsyms_for_kcore Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-29  9:36 ` [GIT PULL 00/12] perf/core improvements and fixes Ingo Molnar
2015-10-29  9:51   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-29  9:55   ` Jiri Olsa

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