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add {before/after}_help_{short/long} to App struct #1903

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jeffka11 opened this issue May 3, 2020 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2008
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add {before/after}_help_{short/long} to App struct #1903

jeffka11 opened this issue May 3, 2020 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2008
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jeffka11 commented May 3, 2020

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Describe your use case

I'm looking to use the help menu to replace creating a separate man page. To not bombard users with info, I'd like to include detailed information when they use the long --help flag for sections that need more detail. As a random example of more detail, if you "man curl", you'll see sections at the end explaining error codes that you wouldn't see with "curl --help" and I think {before/after}help{short/long} would provide that location.

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let myapp = App::new("My App")
    .after_help("footer message")  // this already exists
    .before_help("header message")  // this already exists

    .after_help_short("a concise footer")  // proposal, could be redundant with after_help
    .after_help_long("a much longer footer")  // proposal
    .before_help_short("a short header")  // proposal, could be redundant with before_help
    .before_help_long("a verbose header")  // proposal

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make man pages or a hook into cargo doc from clap, although I think the suggested solution is easier.

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kbknapp commented May 4, 2020

I think this would be implemented as {after,before}_help_long and allow the current {before,after}_help serve as the short so that we don't have redundant APIs. This also would go along with the short somewhat being the default in clap as with all other settings that where both a long and short co-exist.

@pksunkara pksunkara added this to the 3.1 milestone May 5, 2020
@CreepySkeleton CreepySkeleton added A-help Area: documentation, including docs.rs, readme, examples, etc... D: easy labels Jun 30, 2020
Blaxar added a commit to Blaxar/clap that referenced this issue Jul 11, 2020
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2008: feat: Added {before/after}_help_long to App struct, closed #1903 r=pksunkara a=Blaxar



Co-authored-by: Blaxar Waldarax <blaxar.waldarax@gmail.com>
@bors bors bot closed this as completed in 748aea3 Jul 19, 2020
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