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[PATCH 3/5] parse-options: allow -h as a short option

From
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Nov 17, 2015, 10:25 UTC
Message-ID
<564B00A2.5040801@web.de>
In-Reply-To
<564AFF32.1030406@web.de>

Let callers provide their own handler for the short option -h even without the flag PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP, but call the internal handler (showing usage information) if that is the only parameter. Implement the first part by checking for -h only if parse_short_opt() can't find it and returns -2.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
 parse-options.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 parse-options.h |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index 4863966..47a9192 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ void parse_options_start(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
 			 const struct option *options, int flags)
 {
 	memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx));
-	ctx->argc = argc - 1;
+	ctx->argc = ctx->total = argc - 1;
 	ctx->argv = argv + 1;
 	ctx->out  = argv;
 	ctx->prefix = prefix;
@@ -448,27 +448,32 @@ int parse_options_step(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		/* lone -h asks for help */
+		if (internal_help && ctx->total == 1 && !strcmp(arg + 1, "h"))
+			goto show_usage;
+
 		if (arg[1] != '-') {
 			ctx->opt = arg + 1;
-			if (internal_help && *ctx->opt == 'h')
-				goto show_usage;
 			switch (parse_short_opt(ctx, options)) {
 			case -1:
 				goto show_usage_error;
 			case -2:
 				if (ctx->opt)
 					check_typos(arg + 1, options);
+				if (internal_help && *ctx->opt == 'h')
+					goto show_usage;
 				goto unknown;
 			}
 			if (ctx->opt)
 				check_typos(arg + 1, options);
 			while (ctx->opt) {
-				if (internal_help && *ctx->opt == 'h')
-					goto show_usage;
 				switch (parse_short_opt(ctx, options)) {
 				case -1:
 					goto show_usage_error;
 				case -2:
+					if (internal_help && *ctx->opt == 'h')
+						goto show_usage;
+
 					/* fake a short option thing to hide the fact that we may have
 					 * started to parse aggregated stuff
 					 *
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index e8b55ea..ea4af92 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ enum {
 struct parse_opt_ctx_t {
 	const char **argv;
 	const char **out;
-	int argc, cpidx;
+	int argc, cpidx, total;
 	const char *opt;
 	int flags;
 	const char *prefix;
-- 
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  1. 0/5 parse-options: allow -h as a short optionRené Scharfe, Nov 17, 2015
  2. 1/5 parse-options: deduplicate parse_options_usage() callsRené Scharfe, Nov 17, 2015
  3. 2/5 parse-options: inline parse_options_usage() at its only remaining callerRené Scharfe, Nov 17, 2015
  4. 3/5 parse-options: allow -h as a short optionRené Scharfe, Nov 17, 2015
  5. 4/5 grep: stop using PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELPRené Scharfe, Nov 17, 2015
  6. 5/5 show-ref: stop using PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELPRené Scharfe, Nov 17, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2015

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