Re: Help on usage or feature request: default mode

Kay-Michael Wuerzner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mode options are a great extension to gengetopt. Many thanks for
> integrating this feature.

Hi there

happy you like the new features :-)

> 
> 1. Is there a possibilty to define a 'default mode'?

actually I hadn't thought about that, but you're right: we need a 
default mode, let me think about this feature

> I tried the following specification (I skipped some options for
> reasons of readability):
> 
> defmode "moot tagger"
> 
> modeoption      "ta-moot"       -       "Use moot tagger"
>        flag    on      mode="moot tagger"
> 
> modeoption      "ta-moot-model"      -   "Language model for moot"
>        string  typestr="FILE ()"       mode="moot tagger"      required
> 
> defmode "tree tagger"
> 
> modeoption      "ta-tree"       -       "Use tree tagger"
>        flag    off     mode="tree tagger"
> 
> modeoption      "ta-tree-model"      -   "Language model for moot"
>        string  typestr="FILE ()"       mode="tree tagger"      required
> 
> I would expect the program to give an error message (dummy:
> '--ta-moot-model' option required), if run without any option. But no
> errors are reported. Is there any workaround?
> 
> 2. Is it possible to nest groups and modes? E.g. I would like to have
> modes for some aspects of my program. I can implement flags using a
> combination of the 'values' and the 'dependon' 'keyword. But I do not
> see how more complex arguments like those above could depend on
> previously set arguments.

mh... shouldn't it be already like that?
Doesn't it work to nest group inside modes?

cheers
	Lorenzo

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