Hi David,
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 04:30:38AM +0900, David Bremner wrote:
> I think a dealt with all of Mark's comments, even "notmuch help
> --help".
>
> I ended up creating a new function for the places where we want to
> process _only_ the shared options (config, setup, and help)
I see you patching and repatching notmuch's CLI to improve it, and I was
wondering whether you had considered actually using `docopt` to generate
the CLI parser from the output.
It's possible to chain docopts to create a CLI UI very much alike the
git command, and it's more easily maintainable, as you're actually
generating the code from the `--help` page instead of the other way
around, making you focus on how you want the user to use the CLI only.
Here's the link to the C parser generator:
https://github.com/docopt/docopt.c
it might not be perfect as is, but it could be worth trying out? I
actually never tried the .c version of docopt.
I had a more extensive experience with the python version, and since
then I totally dropped argparse.
https://github.com/docopt/docopt.c
I even tend to believe that one could create a full CLI using
python+docopt to actually control notmuch using the python notmuch
interface⦠Even though I'm pretty sure some would yell at me and
want to burn me as an heretic just for suggesting that :-)
what do you believe?
--
Guyzmo
