Currently only single-letter aliases are allowed. Is this intentional or would the capacity to alias, for instance, option "foo" as "bar" be a welcome PR?
On Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 4:27:20 AM UTC-8, José Valim wrote: > > Yes, improvements to the action parser will be really welcome. Feel free > to expand on your proposals here and send PRs. For example, :count could be > done in the existing :switches configuration. I would also be ok with > support -vn and the like. > > > > *José Valim* > www.plataformatec.com.br > Skype: jv.ptec > Founder and Director of R&D > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:14 PM, derek <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi, I'm a new in Erlang/Elixir with somewhat good Python background, >> trying to write some small shell utils in Elixir exs script and am >> surprised the OptionParser is limited and totally missing in Erlang >> standard lib, I read somewhat rebar code and it's using the >> `jcomellas/getopt` [3] solution, but I prefer a in lib solution, >> >> Problems with current Elixir OptionParser: >> 1. it doesn't support combine switches, like "-vn" should be treated >> same as "-v -n" if both are not requiring an argument; >> 2. I need to count behaviour like the Python argparser >> `action="count"`; it will be useful to support "--verbose" or "-vvv" >> to mean increased verbosity >> >> parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbosity", action="count", >> help="increase output verbosity") >> >> >> [1] http://elixir-lang.org/docs/master/elixir/OptionParser.html >> [2] >> https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/lib/elixir/lib/option_parser.ex >> [3] https://github.com/jcomellas/getopt >> [4] https://docs.python.org/2/howto/argparse.html >> >> I'm trying to improve OptionParser, have some local changes in >> option_parser.ex, basically I hope it can be as powerful as Python >> argparse module [4]; would like to see here if you have some more >> ideas, >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAJctwx4P4260r0WiMD7pDScReiqwc5vg88MufVHm9hyV6mpvRA%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/0363554a-3df7-4e8a-bf5a-82a044321142%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
