Kartik Kulkarni writes:
> I believe that this bug is too old and I am taking the liberty to
> close it.
Is age (alone) sufficient cause to close a bug?
The current version in Debian unstable seems to be more broken, compared
to what the help text says:
$ source-highlight --src-lang perl hello
Processing hello ... created hello.html
$ source-highlight --src-lang perl --output=STDOUT hello
Please, use one of the two syntaxes for invocation:
source-highlight [OPTIONS]... -i input_file -o output_file
source-highlight [OPTIONS]... [FILES]...
$ source-highlight --help | grep -A3 'output=FILENAME'
-o, --output=FILENAME Output file (default=stdout, when the third
invocation form is used). If 'STDOUT' is
specified, the output is directed to
standard
output
$ source-highlight --version | head -n 1
GNU Source-highlight 3.1.9 (library: 4:1:0)
$
The --output STDOUT no longer works, despite the help text.
Ah, it is now mandatory to use --input when using --output (that's what
"the third invocation form" is about), it seems:
$ source-highlight --src-lang perl --output=STDOUT --input=hello
<!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.9
by Lorenzo Bettini
http://www.lorenzobettini.it
http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
<pre><tt><i><font color="#9A1900">#!/usr/bin/perl</font></i>
[...]
say <font color="#FF0000">'Hello world'</font><font color="#990000">;</font>
</tt></pre>
$
And if you use --input and no --output, the behaviour I expected with
just a filename is observed:
$ source-highlight --src-lang perl --input=hello
<!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.9
by Lorenzo Bettini
http://www.lorenzobettini.it
http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
<pre><tt><i><font color="#9A1900">#!/usr/bin/perl</font></i>
[...]
say <font color="#FF0000">'Hello world'</font><font color="#990000">;</font>
</tt></pre>
$
I still think the help text is confusing, but at least now it won't
overwrite a existing file *if* you use --input.
Upstream it seems that this is the expected behaviour:
"Sat 01 Jun 2019 08:18:17 PM UTC, comment #2:
I think this is fixed now
Tom Tromey <tromey>"
· http://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106347#comment2
So for that reason I think it is fine to close this bug.
Thanks for taking the time to look at this oldie!
Best regards,
Adam
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