Re: [help-gengetopt] cmdline_file_save accepts file handler instead

[Papp Gyozo (VBuster)]

> Actually, I'm still reluctant in considering mal"formed" a good argument 
> since it is not consistent with command line arguments, where " must be 
> escaped...
> 
> can we discuss a little bit on this?

Yes, of course. Actually my concern is how to avoid enclosing quotes as many 
place as possible. You know our customers were a little bit frustrated when 
they found that thay had to give their registration keys and usernames in 
qoutes. (It sounds a silly but actually they are *the* customers who pays for 
this stufff.)

Anyway, why must those string be quoted? Because they contain spaces and/or 
single quote (apostrphe) in names generally. Let's have a look at the source we 
have:

@@ -702,9 +720,11 @@
             }
         }
       else
-        { /* read up the remaining part up to a delimiter */
-          next_token = strcspn (farg, " \t\r\n#\'\"");

First we may omit '\t' and ' ' (space) here to allow "multi word" options. And 
we need special care about '\'' to suffice my needs. Am I right?

So I'll probably come up with a new patch soon which accepts these lines but 
does not break the compatibility much with older versions.