On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> > I think the best format for usage is something like what Plan 9
> > utilities use (BSD use the same):
> >
> > usage: cmd [-abcde] [-f file] [-g pattern] [file ...]
>
> Options without values are combined? Is that correct?
Yes.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:35:15PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> 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.
Most default X1
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:36:14PM +0200, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> It would be a nice challenge to write a really small getopt()
> replacement, and a program that generates usage text.
Check getflags(8)[1], it parse options and generate usage messages for
rc scripts.
For C there are ARGBEGIN, AR
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:52:40PM -0400, Ryan Mullen wrote:
> Second, dmenu's "suggested" integration with surf is a bit dodgy. If,
> for example, a user is viewing surf.suckless.org and they wish to
> navigate to suckless.org, they would be required to strike
> shift+return in order to actually v
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:52:37PM +0400, anonymous wrote:
> usage: cmd [-abcde] [-f file] [-g pattern] [file ...]
What about cmd [-abcde] [-fg arg] [file ...]?
> usage: flo [-c id] [-f from] [-r id] [-t to] [-w what] [what[,from][-to]]
With the above rules this should be: flo [-cfrtw arg] [what[,
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:27:22 +0200
Alexander Teinum wrote:
> How many of these small tools are there?
moreutils rock. they really fill some gaps. niche, but still.
Dieter
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> Suraj Kurapati dixit (2010-08-17, 20:49):
>
> > > As for bold, fortunately my terminal has it disabled,
> >
> > I set up nice colors for bold and underline so things are easy to read
> > (see the attached screenshot). If anyone is interest
But we don’t need the brackets. As long as the usage text is
unambiguous, then they don’t add any information. Am I right?
Alexander
How do the colrules percentages work? Does each number represent the
percentage of column n as a fraction of the width of the whole screen,
or of the last selected column before it was created, or ... ?
I ask because I was messing with colrules for GIMP for a while but I
wasn't able to get it wor
On 18 August 2010 15:37, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> But we don’t need the brackets. As long as the usage text is
> unambiguous, then they don’t add any information. Am I right?
Two instances which make this untrue:
> ar [-]key archive [files...]
> eg [-b from to] files...
It also just makes the
(Sorry for not quoting names. It’s cumbersome to do with more than one
person in Gmail.)
> With the above rules this should be: flo [-cfrtw arg] [what[,from][-to]]
I think that’s too little information.
> It also just makes the usage easier to read, in my opinion. Dropping a
> few characters jus
I've been using a patched version of dmenu since I started using surf.
It sort of emulates firefox's address bar, (but I haven't been using
firefox in a while so I'm not too sure..):
1) The Tab key acts as the Down key and Shift+Tab acts as Up.
2) Before Tab/Down/Shift+Tab/Up keys are pressed, no
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Kris Maglione wrote:
>
> GNU man has the annoying and difficult to stop habit of filling the entire
> width of the terminal rather than wrapping at 80 chars. And if you set
> $MANWIDTH or $COLUMNS to 80 and the terminal isn't that wide, you wind up
> with badly br
2010/8/18 Alexander Teinum :
> I’d like to write a KISS option parser that accepts “program -c -a -f
> some_file”, but not “program -ca -fsome_file”. I prefer to keep the
> rules simple.
Such a simple option set probably doesn't actually *need* a parser. I
don't think any lines would be freed up i
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:55:10PM +0200, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> Is it okay to use three dots in the usage text? (See echo’s man page.)
> I think it means that you can repeat what’s before the three dots.
It is ok and they should be used. And it should be 3 dots, not … so
usage is in ASCII. A
>On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:52:40PM -0400, Ryan Mullen wrote:
>
> The first problem is a simple patch, but I'm not sure what is the best
> approach here. As far as I can see, I think it would be best to assume
> that URIs without "://" in them are actually file:// types, and
> http:// should be re
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Lorenzo Bolla wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
>> Suraj Kurapati dixit (2010-08-17, 20:49):
>> > http://github.com/sunaku/home/blob/master/.Xdefaults
>>
>> Any hints how to enable coloring in X terminals?
>
> I believe the options t
Lorenzo Bolla dixit (2010-08-18, 15:09):
> > > > As for bold, fortunately my terminal has it disabled,
> > >
> > > I set up nice colors for bold and underline so things are easy to read
> > > (see the attached screenshot). If anyone is interested, my Xdefaults
> > > file is here:
> > >
> > > ht
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:55:10PM +0200, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> I’d like to write a KISS option parser that accepts “program -c -a -f
> some_file”, but not “program -ca -fsome_file”. I prefer to keep the
> rules simple.
take a look at the ARGBEGIN and ARGEND macro's in Plan 9.
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