Re: Unhelpful "--help" output

2024-11-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
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

Re: Unhelpful "--help" output

2024-11-12 Thread Christopher Howard
indieterminacy writes: > Sounds interesting. > > I guess you are being implicit regarding the spacing order? > It may be more resilient to consider counting the number of opening > spaces/tabs and then compare the results. > > In any case Id like to look at the uri to see how Transient is > opera

Re: Unhelpful "--help" output

2024-11-12 Thread indieterminacy
Hello Christopher, On 2024-11-12 16:23, Christopher Howard wrote: Hi, if planning to make changes to --help output, could you please try to preserve the output formatting as much as possible? I'm trying to fix the bitrot in the emacs-guix "shell commands" code, which actually parses the --help

Re: Unhelpful "--help" output

2024-11-12 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi, if planning to make changes to --help output, could you please try to preserve the output formatting as much as possible? 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 t

Re: Unhelpful "--help" output

2024-11-12 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi Ricardo, On 12/11/24 13:14, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi Guix, I found the help output not to be very helpful whenever there are sub-commands. The output contains options that are not relevant to the sub-command. The options also don't appear to be ordered. Here is an example. I want to know