Re: [help-gengetopt] Gengetopt 2.22 and --show-detailed-help

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Tim Post wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 08:51 +0100, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > nice to hear from you!
> >
> > I think I've used a standard format for help output (e.g., it can be 
> > used by help2man).  But I'm not sure about that... any clue anyone?
>
> I ran gengetopt specifying the function to be main() so I could just run
> it, then passed it through help2man just to be sure and it worked
> without any problem.
>
> I would think breaking that could be bad, especially for something using
> gengetopt and gengen, where the gengetopt infile is also written by
> another program (i.e. autoconf influenced).
>
> This is interesting however for programs that have dozens of options,
> help for those is often hard to read. I've never used the grouping
> feature in gengetopt (I'm about to play with it soon), does that also
> permit a ./prog --help [groupname] display?

so you're saying that the current output should be standard, aren't you?

it looks like that to me... as far as I could see from other programs' 
output... Tong, are you referring to the output of a program that you saw?

cheers
        Lorenzo


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