Conquer the land of clicketing snakes

[pawamoy]

Twin sister of chriskiehl/Gooey#788 :D
Original PR title: Allow to run any Click program from the CLI :p

[pawamoy]

Just had to change a bit the imports in __init__.py to avoid infinite recursion 🙂

EDIT: hmm the arguments are not passed correctly, back to draft.

[pawamoy]

Any examples of projects using Click so I can test it on them? HTTPX seems to use its own formatted help (same output with and without rich-click).

[pawamoy]

Well that's nice.

[ewels]

Brilliant stuff! 👏🏻

I'm on holiday this week so won't get a chance to properly review + merge until after that, but love the idea / look of it..

Phil

[pawamoy]

No problem, enjoy your holidays!

[pawamoy]

So there's just one more thing to decide on: whether to implement rich-click's own CLI with click or not.

[ewels]

Yeah I did wonder about commenting about that! Seems a bit hypocritical not to somehow 😅

[ewels]

Ok, I had a stab at running locally but ran into some issues..

[ewels]

Note to self: need to add the new entry points into the conda-forge meta.yml after this is released.

Example here, so something like this I guess:

build:
  entry_points:
    - rich-click=rich_click.cli:main

[ewels]

That fixed it! 🎉

[ewels]

ok, so using click to handle the CLI was difficult because of the weird argument handling (we don't want click to interpret any option flags).

Instead, I tried to fake it - using as many of the rich-click functions and variables as possible so that the help text tracks with updates to the package.

This is what I now get:

I'll push this directly to your PR if that's ok @pawamoy - I should PR to your feature branch really, but it's late.. 😁

[ewels]

Now also spits out an informative error message if the command isn't found, or the full usage if just rich-click or rich-click --help:

[ewels]

Love it, working a treat in my hands now - thanks for this!

I don't think I'd have ever believed that this would work had you not put in this PR 😅

[pawamoy]

I'll push this directly to your PR if that's ok @pawamoy

Totally fine!

And great work! I feared indeed that rewriting the CLI using click would be tricky, but you managed to do it well 😄