Re: quick question about --usage

Lorenzo Bettini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gengetopt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Papp Gyozo (VBuster) wrote:
> Hmm...
> 
> Actually usage string cannot be by passed anyhow. Is it intended?
> 
> If I don't specify custom usage in .ggo, gengetopt will do it instead of me.
> If I could specify an empty string, then _print_help() would print several empty lines:
> 
>   if (strlen(cmdline_options_purpose) > 0)
>     printf("\n%s\n", cmdline_options_purpose);
> 
>   printf("\n%s\n\n", cmdline_options_usage);
>   while (cmdline_options_help[i])
> 
> 
> while purpose are really optional (see if).

you're right!
I should put the printing of the usage string under the scope of an if, 
just like purpose.  I'll include it in the next release.

thanks
	Lorenzo

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