Re: [PATCH] Command line parsing of ls with genparse

[Eric Blake]

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According to Michael Geng on 8/28/2007 12:33 PM:
> 
> In the present version of genparse new strings are always printed
> in new lines. For example (also from the ls commmand):
> 
> d / directory                 flag    "list directory entries instead of 
> contents,"
>                                       "  and do not dereference symbolic 
> links"

Why not make genparse a bit smarter, and let the user supply free-form
text as the option description.  Genparse should then wrap it to fit an
80-column screen before generating the resulting usage() in the .c file.
Then the above example would simply be:

d / directory   flag \
"list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference
symbolic links"

with the __GNU_GLOSSARY__(29) being the formatting hint of where the
auto-wrapping should occur in the output English text.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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