Re: [help-gengetopt] Groups and other wishes

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Jens Jakobsen wrote:

> > Do you mean that { } in command line are standard for getopt?  Sorry 
> > about my ignorance but I really didn't know about it.  Could you 
> > please provide me with some link to this feature? 
>
> I probably made a bad reference. I dont know this option for getopt. For 
> maximum flexibility infinite subsection nesting should be possible. This 
> however is mostly a nice-to-look-at feature, without much practical 
> application. (But then again if the work is the same it might make sense 
> to make nesting possible)

what I meant is: "are {} actually used in some GNU applications in 
command line arguments"?

> > > With the introduction of configuration files I sometimes find myself 
> > > in the situation where a flag is turned
> > > on in the configuration file, but I wish to turn it off again on the 
> > > command line. This is not possible with the current setup.
> >
> > *** Flag options ***
> >
> > you get an error, don't you? 
>
> No errors.

OK, so you're right the behavior is confusing, I'll fix this

see you soon
        Lorenzo

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