Re: Patch: Aliases with Arguments (TODO #28)

Did this patch ever get into the doxygen tree?  Is anyone using it?  I'm
about to try it out, but I think I will have to patch the source
still...

thanks!

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:01 -0500, Dirk Reiners wrote:
>     Hi Y'all (I've been living in Louisiana too long ;),
> 
> I wrote a little patch to support arguments in aliases. It's very simple 
> and not very elegant, but it works fine.
> 
> Usage is trivial. In the aliases arguments need to be marked with 
> ^<number>^, like this:
>  
> ALIASES      = "al1=*AL1*" \
>                "al2=*AL2:^1^*" \
>                "al3=*AL3:^1^ -> ^2^*"
> 
> When using the alias the arguments are passed in parentheses after the 
> alias (like C macros) and separated by ',' (which can be escaped if 
> necessary):
> 
> Alias with one arg: \al2(ARG) will be "*AL2:ARG*"
> Alias with one arg and escaped ',': \al2(ARG\,BLARG) will be 
> "*AL2:ARG,BLARG*"
> Alias with two args: \al3(FOO,BAR) will be "*AL3:FOO -> BAR*"
> 
> If an alias is called without () no argument substitution is done, so 
> all existing documentation should work just fine.
> 
> Currently the maximum number of arguments is fixed at 20, which 
> hopefully is enough.
> 
> The path is against current CVS.
> 
> Hope you find it useful
>   
>     Dirk
> 
> 
> 
> plain text document attachment (aliasdiff)

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