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Re: [Genparse-users] Automatically breaking lines on the Genparse help screen
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From: Mike B. <mi...@bo...> - 2007-09-13 11:40:40
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No problem. Mike Michael Geng wrote: > Mike, > > I'm presently trying Genparse on the GNU Coreutils. They have strict tests > and I'm having trouble to pass "make distcheck" if the time stamp alwas > changes. But I agree that the full header as Genparse generates it now is > useful and for this reason the default will be to create it the same way as > it was before. > > Michael > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:36:56PM -0500, Mike Borella wrote: >> Michael, >> >> These options seem fine. Any reason not to include the header info? >> Its not necessary but I also found it useful. Did someone request the >> option to remove it? >> >> Michael Geng wrote: >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> I want to introduce a new global definition "#break_lines" to the Genparse >>> file. It takes an integer argument specifying the page width and >>> automatically breaks lines on the help screen to this width. E.g. >>> #break_lines 80 would automatically format all output printed by the >>> usage() function to a width of 80 characters. >>> >>> ==================================== >>> >>> Additionally I would like to introduce a new command line switch >>> >>> s / static-headers flag "Keep headers of generated files static. >>> Don't add" >>> "creation date, username, kernel version >>> etc." >>> >>> which removes those lines in the header of the generated parser files >>> which are >>> frequently changing. Below is a Genparse header as it has been generated >>> up to now >>> (and will continue to be generated if the command switch is not set): >>> >>> /****************************************************************************** >>> ** >>> ** mycopy4_clp.cc >>> ** >>> ** Sun Sep 9 11:55:55 2007 >>> ** Linux 2.6.19 (#1 Sun Jan 21 11:52:23 CET 2007) i686 >>> ** linux@mgpc (Michael Geng) >>> ** >>> ** Definition of command line parser class >>> ** >>> ** Automatically created by genparse v0.6.9 >>> ** >>> ** See http://genparse.sourceforge.net for details and updates >>> ** >>> ******************************************************************************/ >>> >>> If you invoke genparse with -s or --static-headers then the complete >>> header would look like this: >>> >>> /****************************************************************************** >>> ** >>> ** mycopy4_clp.cc >>> ** >>> ** Definition of command line parser class >>> ** >>> ** Automatically created by genparse v0.6.9 >>> ** >>> ** See http://genparse.sourceforge.net for details and updates >>> ** >>> ******************************************************************************/ >>> >>> Michael >>> >> >> -- >> Mike Borella >> http://www.borella.net/mike >> > -- Mike Borella http://www.borella.net/mike |
