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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com>,  guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unhelpful "--help" output
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:17:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttcbc828.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o72kqv40.fsf@librehacker.com> (Christopher Howard's message of "Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:23:27 -0900")

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Hi, if planning to make changes to --help output, could you please try
> to preserve the output formatting as much as possible?

I don't think I can guarantee this.

> 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.

-- 
Ricardo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-13 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ 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
2024-11-12 19:56   ` Christopher Howard
2024-11-13 18:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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

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