2008/5/9, Benjamin Bentmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Vincent Siveton wrote:
>
>
> > IIRC the main reason to have toLines() in the generated class is to
> > control the ouput, ie getting user configuration like max buffer or
> > indentation and providing the specific output.
> >
>
>  You mean to support something like this:
>
>   mvn foo:help -Dindent=4 -Dmax=120
>
>  Do I understand correctly? But is this really of practical interest?

Yep exactly

User prompts could be customized (ie other 80 char width) so I think
it could be a reasonable use case.

>  I could imagine that plugin developers would like to control these settings
>  when *generating* their help goal but will end-users ever care to control
>  the formatting when *invoking* the help goal? Just wondering.

Actually, end users could control the output with -Ddetail parameter,
so why not the formatting ?

Cheers,

Vincent

>
>  Benjamin
>
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