On 8/8/25 10:51, Mark Geisert wrote:
+ {"runas", 'r', POPT_ARG_NONE, NULL, 'r', + "Short for: --action runas", NULL},I understand you're adding a new action selected by arg 'r'...{NULL, '\0', 0, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL} }; @@ -223,7 +226,7 @@ main (int argc, const char **argv) "Display version information", NULL}, {"license", '\0', POPT_ARG_NONE, NULL, 'l', "Display licensing information", NULL}, - {"reference", '\0', POPT_ARG_NONE, NULL, 'r', + {"reference", '\0', POPT_ARG_NONE, NULL, 'W', "Open MSDN reference for ShellExecute", NULL},... and changing existing action 'r' to 'W'. But the string "reference" needs to be changed to something starting with 'W' then. Did you have a word in mind when choosing 'W' as the new action?Alternatively, is there a word+action that better indicates what that command does? Granted, it's a pretty obscure and complicated thing to reduce down to one word.
Correct, -r should invoke "runas". As far as I can tell after inspecting these opt structs, this 5th argument (last letter on the line) is only used to fetch the option in code. The usable short-hand argument is 2nd (empty here).
So to avoid changing the current --reference option, I decided to rename the internal letter to "W" as in "Web (reference)", but keep the long-name. I found it would create less confusion than instead having option -r not correspond to internal code 'r'. The letter 'M' is taken by --maximize too.
In the end, it's just an unfortunate letter collision (I hope my understanding is correct) and one has to give way or rename --reference entirely (to --web ?). Giving "--action=runas" a different letter than 'r' would make a really awful mnemonic in my opinion.
Cheers, Vadim
