What is the use case?
Amos King
Binary Noggin
> On Dec 22, 2016, at 20:11, Chris Keele <d...@chriskeele.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:14 PM, derek <den...@gmail.com> 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,
>>>
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