[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] allow multiple help clauses on the command line

[kiriuja]

On Sun 17 Jul 2005 04:57, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:46:16 -0400
> kiriuja <mplayer-patches at en-directo.net> wrote:
> 
> > > alias 'mplayer -vo help -ao help -ac help -vc help -pphelp -af help
> > > -vfm help -vf help -afm help -fstype help'='man mplayer'
> > 
> > I guess I should've been more clear. man mplayer is for users. This
> > patch is meant to help MPlayer-based frontends, scripts, etc. to get
> > the lists of stuff actually available in a given MPlayer installation
> > by running MPlayer only once instead of a dozen times like it is now.
> 
> Then it would be better to have one switch -show-all-help or something 
> like that, which prints all help pages in a specific order in a way
> that can be easily parsed. I think this way would clutter the code much less.

This is certainly a good idea, and I may do it sometime in the future.
However, it would not solve the problem this patch is meant to solve.
That means, for example, mplayer -vo help -ao help would still produce
inadequate output.

As far as parsing, the output is already easily parseable, especially
if you use -identify.

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kiriuja