From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Delivery-date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:28:14 +0200 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by lore.white.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1q9RTr-006l6i-9x for lore@lore.pengutronix.de; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:28:13 +0200 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q9RTo-0002nR-Vp for lore@pengutronix.de; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:28:13 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=auB1f1T0bh1vDuf1NyXjBoQNj8GtZcULfjq41Ir4/CI=; b=RsSwmCEJAx0gNGs1FcO6RAGadO b/gfdaURUedg0mdPTY/r+2KXSl76y9buZxiHiFzML73+J5c9HG/EAyuHNvpCdC1igBM9ppahO0J0Q 2GZhuLFL2NSQDEVTeRv3sPmjpLi30qQe+Smii6nKTE0rbaYiIM1sXkIjAzcoIu7F1yGhYcKx7H3Z5 8R7Cbakmp3DFsDWHwHEa5HivqVkjdqF6y9Vm52sjn8c6nhfuAS4VDG6rdG719ZQHKB3Zwb0mWJoZk mXfBm3mFO+hQLRLM2S+gQc81RhWtHPtDDX5ApMlws2fWFyLmEMa14fx+cfniZbUulo3yr6H5+BvZ2 xNe1ppyw==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1q9RSq-00BuFO-11; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:27:12 +0000 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1q9RSm-00BuER-3C for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:27:10 +0000 Received: from ptz.office.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:0:900:1d::77] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q9RSk-0002ij-1O; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:27:06 +0200 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:27:05 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.2 Content-Language: en-US To: Sascha Hauer Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org References: <20230614090231.4141827-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> <20230614142137.GB18491@pengutronix.de> From: Ahmad Fatoum In-Reply-To: <20230614142137.GB18491@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230614_072709_031609_4ACAA867 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 16.82 ) X-BeenThere: barebox@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "barebox" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2607:7c80:54:3::133 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: barebox-bounces+lore=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on metis.ext.pengutronix.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.9 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Subject: Re: [PATCH] commands: help: ignore options after first regular argument X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 08 May 2019 21:11:16 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de) On 14.06.23 16:21, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:02:31AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: >> If some-command -n foo bar -v fails, it would be nice to be able to >> just stick help in front of the command to get help text. This doesn't >> work currently, because getopt called for help will complain about not >> knowing some-command's options. Fix this by only parsing help options up >> to the first non-option argument (i.e. one that doesn't start with `-'). >> >> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum >> --- >> commands/help.c | 19 ++++++++++++------- >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > Just prefix with "help -- " instead of "help " Oh. That works too... One could argue that most people are interested in the help text for a single command, so not having to type -- is a tiny bit better user experience. > > Sascha > -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |