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From: indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com>,
	Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unhelpful "--help" output
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:31:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f185f021ebc224f1fcdf398ef8fad053@libre.brussels> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o72kqv40.fsf@librehacker.com>

Hello Christopher,

On 2024-11-12 16:23, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi, if planning to make changes to --help output, could you please try 
> to preserve the output formatting as much as possible? I'm trying to 
> fix the bitrot in the emacs-guix "shell commands" code, which actually 
> parses the --help output using regexs, and and generates magit-popup 
> menus based on that. So little things like the number of spaces on the 
> line before the command name actually matter.

Sounds interesting.

I guess you are being implicit regarding the spacing order?
It may be more resilient to consider counting the number of opening 
spaces/tabs and then compare the results.

In any case Id like to look at the uri to see how Transient is operating 
off your PEGs.

Thanks for working on this!

Kind regards,


Jonathan


  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-12 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-12 16:23 Unhelpful "--help" output Christopher Howard
2024-11-12 16:31 ` indieterminacy [this message]
2024-11-12 19:56   ` Christopher Howard
2024-11-13 18:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-11-13 22:35   ` Christopher Howard
2024-11-14 10:37     ` Ricardo Wurmus
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-11-12 13:14 Ricardo Wurmus
2024-11-12 15:03 ` Suhail Singh
2024-11-12 15:06 ` Luis Felipe
2024-12-10 16:44 ` Simon Tournier

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