Re: PUPA disk questions

[M. Gerards]

Quoting "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden>:

> On Monday 27 October 2003 22:48, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > What bothers me the most about PUPA currently is the missing tab
> > completion.  GRUB just completes the command first and the pathname
> > afterwards.  How do you think about making this context sensitive?
> 
> I'm not sure. The way in which GRUB completes arguments was the same as that
> 
> in BASH. Now BASH has programmable completions, but I really don't know if 
> the feature is useful for GRUB as well. Can you explain more on what is your
> problem with GRUB's way?

There is no problem.  I would just prefer some "smarter" tab
completion.

> > I want to write some routines to parse arguments.  This can be (like)
> > argp, I just have to see how hard it is to implement.  It should be
> > possible somehow to define a function for every argument that is used
> > for completion.
> 
> I think argp is too complex for PUPA. It is very flexible and powerful, but I
> don't think it is easy to use.
> 
> How about popt?

It looks good enough to me.  Do you want to use the library (is
that possible?) or do you want a popt implementation for PUPA?

Thanks,
Marco