From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 852 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 07:07:00 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 07:07:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 5496 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2001 07:06:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15665 Received: (qmail 5485 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 07:06:53 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) From: Borsenkow Andrej To: "'Felix Rosencrantz'" , "'zsh-workers'" Subject: RE: New options & arguments processing system for ZSH Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:06:37 +0400 Message-ID: <000301c12946$a7599500$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20010820065351.70088.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 Importance: Normal > > One thing I noticed when trying to complete options to the supplied > "yes" function, was that it didn't provide much help for the options. > It provided type information, but it didn't actually tell me what the > options did. The format does provide a mechanism to do that. Though > it seems like that it requires duplicating information that is already > there in the help text. So it seems if it was somehow possible to reuse > the help text already there that might be useful. > Yes, I was about to comment on this too. I guess if this is adopted, parse_opts should generate help text output out of options specifications. -andrej