Plan9 getopt replacement is quite nice. I recommend the reading. Maybe a port would be good. Dunno if its in 9base.. But it should be enought with a .h and few defines
----- Original message ----- > Hey, > > > Options without values are combined? Is that correct? > > Can be. Though, many suckless projects don't accept this and use, eg, > strcmp(argv[i], "-sb"). A number of non-suckless programs are similar. > > > usage: flo [-cr id] [-ft date] … > > This would lead me to think that there were options '-cr' and '-ft'. > Separating them would be better. > > > Is it valid for an option to have an optional argument? > > Depends what you mean by "valid". It's extremely weird. You'd have to > process the next argument to determine whether it is another flag or a > value for the current option. It would also be very confusing to use. > I'd avoid it if I were you. > > I spent some time thinking about this for dmenu. Its usage wraps to 80 > columns, has lists flags separately first. Regarding '-h' flags, just > make sure you don't create another meaning for '-h' and using it will > automatically spark usage. > > cls >
