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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -1.37 X-Spam-Score: -1.37 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 177111F692 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-TUID: CnfgjJKSsZoH Christopher Howard 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