Re: long / short options (was Re: start-stop-daemon does not recognise --start)

On Thursday 18 October 2007 18:41, Ralf Friedl wrote: > Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > Try this patch. > > ... > Do you think it would be useful to define something like this: > > #define OPTION_HELP_TEXT(SHORT, LONG, TEXT) SHORT > USE_FEATURE_LONG_OPTIONS(LONG) TEXT > > Then the options could be wri

long / short options (was Re: start-stop-daemon does not recognise --start)

Denys Vlasenko wrote: > Try this patch. > ... Do you think it would be useful to define something like this: #define OPTION_HELP_TEXT(SHORT, LONG, TEXT) SHORT USE_FEATURE_LONG_OPTIONS(LONG) TEXT Then the options could be written as OPTION_HELP_TEXT(" -v", ", --verbose", " Verbose\n") and the m