OptionParser patch

[Tom Pollard]

Hi,

I wanted to submit a patch for optparse.rb to make it easier to add
general text to the usage summary. There were three things I wanted
to change:

1. Fix OptionParser#separator so that it correctly handles strings
containing newlines.
2. Introduce 'text' as and alias for the 'separator' method, since
the latter doesn't sound appropriate for adding a paragraph of text
at a time.
3. Add a 'bottom_text' method, which would force the text to appear
after the option summary.

Before I submitted this, I thought I'd ask for comments, or
additional suggestions.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists]

Hi,

I wanted to submit a patch for optparse.rb to make it easier to add general
text to the usage summary. There were three things I wanted to change:

1. Fix OptionParser#separator so that it correctly handles strings containing
newlines.
2. Introduce 'text' as and alias for the 'separator' method, since the latter
doesn't sound appropriate for adding a paragraph of text at a time.
3. Add a 'bottom_text' method, which would force the text to appear after the
option summary.

Before I submitted this, I thought I'd ask for comments, or additional
suggestions.

I only comment on the last item, since I don't know OptionParser enough.
#3 sounds really useful to me.
*t

 

[Tom Pollard]

I only comment on the last item, since I don't know OptionParser
enough. #3 sounds really useful to me.
*t

Thanks.

I've submitted it now (my first patch to a core lib). I'm interested
to see what happens.

Tom