Re: [Autogen-users] funny value assignments when no 'value' and doc is non-empty

[Nikos M. <nm...@gn...>]

On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 10:02 -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Hi Nikos,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nm...@gn...> wrote:
> > If I have:
> > flag = {
> >     name      = rsa;
> >     descrip   = "Generate RSA key";
> >     doc = "When combined with --generate-privkey generates an RSA
> > private key.";
> > };
> >
> > results to:
> > '   -", --rsa                  Generate RSA key'
> >
> > Note the funny '-"' that was assigned. The funny assignments (using
> > values from "!@#$%^&*") seem to occur for all options that have no value
> > and set doc to something else than empty.
> 
> It isn't funny at all.  ;)  It may be a little while before I can chase it down.
> You are talking about the "help" usage text and not man pages, correct?

Indeed, the generated documentation, including the man pages, seem
right. Only the --help output is affected.

> In that case, the issue has to be in one of the opt*.t* files and there
> the only reference to the "doc" stanza is in code emitting an introductory
> comment to a generated function for handling the option.

I wish I could help on that, but I never got along with scheme.

regards,
Nikos