Question re: Slop Help about slop

[leejarvis]

At the moment there's not. I've thought about adding the ability to display optional arguments in square brackets and non-option arguments in curly brackets. So a possible help text might look like this:

-n, --name <name>    Your name
-a, --age [age]            Your age
-v, --verbose              Enable verbose mode

For example. But I haven't yet committed to a style.

EDIT: Of course with the correct whitespace, it doesn't like me today

[andyl]

Thanks for confirming the current behavior. Your example style would be a nice enhancement. - Andy

[leejarvis]

I didn't like my earlier idea so I decided to try and hit with something else. This may be re-factored away in 2.0 and be made a little easier, but until then I dont want to break backwards compatibility and I'm not sure this is used all that often. Anyway, now you can do:

on :n, :name, 'Your name', true, :help => '<NAME>'

And help will show

    -n, --name <NAME>        Your name

Also, setting :help to false will omit an option from the help display.