Plugin Names with comma in their name are impossible to specify

[lucius-martius]

Maybe I'm overlooking something, but there seems to be no way to specify plugin names like "Umbra, Blademaster.esp" to an '-m' merge command without habasi failing because it thinks I just specified two non-existant plugins.

I can just rename the plugin and its fine, but these days plugin names carry a certain relevancy since they are used to sort load order with plox/mlox.

My suggestion would be to support an escape sequence \,.

[alvazir]

Hello!

I've checked and confirm the bug. It's partial though, because "alternative" ways to provide such names exist. That's why I've never encountered it, despite using plugins with commas in names :-\

1. Not working:
   ./habasi -m "out.esp, Umbra, Blademaster.ESP, Vampire Hunters, but They Want to Reintroduce You to Death.esp"
2. Working(only possible for 1 last --merge list though):
   ./habasi -m "out.esp" "Umbra, Blademaster.ESP" "Vampire Hunters, but They Want to Reintroduce You to Death.esp"
3. Working(via config file):
   merge = [[ "out.esp", "Umbra, Blademaster.ESP", "Vampire Hunters, but They Want to Reintroduce You to Death.esp" ]]

Yes, I should fix the first case. Escape sequence looks great.

[alvazir]

Found another funny workaround for now. Use glob or regex pattern :-D Next example simply replaces comma with a dot(which represenets any symbol in regex).

./habasi -m "out.esp, regex:Umbra. Blademaster.ESP, regex:Vampire Hunters. but They Want to Reintroduce You to Death.esp"

[lucius-martius]

I personally am entirely satisfied by specifying the files as individual arguments (workaround 2), it even simplifies my script, since I don't need to concat the file names anymore and don't need multiple merge lists. I could have figured this out myself, but it seems I completely missed it in my multiple times of going over the help-output of the -m command.

As to multiple merge-lists I feel like the regex workaround is a bit awkward, though I can't think of a situation where it would not work. Is there any reason we can't have multiple -m commands with each multiple arguments or is it just because that complicates command-line parsing?

I'll leave it to you if you want to close the issue or keep it open.

[alvazir]

1. Help output may definitely be improved. That'd be great if you have an idea of how to reword it or where to move the part about the needed thing :-)

2. Yep, that complicates things and most possibly requires changing command line parsing library. The "last --merge with multiple arguments" was not planned at all actually and appeared in a recent release as an afterthought.

3. The issue will stay for a while until it's solved. Thank you for reporting it.