Re: [Clops-users] AllOptions and other ways of defining option groups

[Julien C. <jul...@gm...>]

I wholeheartedly agree with you on this point. I've added a feature request
going in that direction for v0.3.
Cheers,
Julien

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Mikoláš Janota <mik...@gm...>wrote:

> I don't like the special keyword AllOptions and that we are diverging
> from the idea that option groups are named rexpses.
>
> In regexp notation instead of
> > OptionalOptions:   AllOptions -CompulsoryOptions;
> I'd write [^CompulsoryOptions], and AllOptions correspond to ".".
>
> m.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Fintan Fairmichael <fi...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > I modified the option store generation template so we now have an
> > OptionGroup named "AllOptions". This was easy to do, but when I went to
> see
> > in which .clo files I could use it I realised that it wasn't sufficient.
> For
> > most interfaces there is often the need to have a group that includes
> most,
> > but not all, of the options.
> >
> > I'd like to propose that we create a way of easily defining such groups.
> My
> > initial design would be allow subtracting options (or option groups) from
> > the set, something like:
> >
> > OptionalOptions:   AllOptions -CompulsoryOptions;
> >
> > Or for svn,
> >
> > Options:   AllOptions -Commands;
> >
> > Where option or option group names prefixed with a '-' means that they
> > should be removed from the set.
> >
> > This obviously creates some complication in terms of how we expand an
> option
> > group to determine exactly what options are in it, but I think the effort
> > would be worth it. I think allowing definitions like the above will help
> to
> > keep the groupings succinct.
> >
> > Comments/suggestions?
> >
> > -F
> >
> >
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