Re: Unhelpful "--help" output

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Perhaps emacs-guix could instead fetch the list of items as an
>> S-expression.
>
> You mean through guix guile API, or...?

Yes.  The (guix scripts *) modules all define %options, a list of
options.  They are not exported, but they could be.   (Alternatively, an
accessor could be exported that returns the options as plain data.)
This structural data could be used in emacs-guix instead of parsing
its textual representation for presentation in the shell.

-- 
Ricardo