From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:54:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: attach help text to subcommands
Message-ID: <CAMP44s28aoKkXyTr4Stow-empen9_CUxAWTDi_gcSUpKjMzg6Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120608153607.GC10380@burratino>

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>>  Thanks.  I wish we could do something aout USAGE_OPTS_WIDTH and
>>  USAGE_GAP; I stole them from parse-options.
>
> Expose them in parse-options.h?  Or put this functionality in a
> parseopt-related file?
>
> Copy+paste must die. :)

There's many commands that would benefit from this. In addition to
provide a better help for subcommands, this can be used to generate
automatically the shell completion list of subcommands.

Even more; in zsh it would be possible to show this help text directly
in the completion.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras