spec: shorthand flag with value

[239]

Is there a smarter way to define the -tN flag? the command accepts only -threads 4 or -t4

  -threads=: "use N threads (default: 0 = all cores)"
  -t1: "-threads 1"
  -tN: "-threads N"

[rsteube]

The attached value is not enforced for the shorthand but should work (command -t[TAB]):

flags:
  -t, --threads=: use N threads
completion:
  flag:
    threads: ["1", n]

[239]

-t1
-t2
-t3
...

seems to be the only way since the command does not take -t N - is this something that could be done with a code-based completer?

[rsteube]

Yes, that is what I mean with it not being enforced. The attached variant works, so it is up to the user to set the flag value correctly.

I tend to define the flag as above even though passing it space-separated is allowed by the flag parser / the completions.
Enforcing the correct usage involves work in the flag parser which is something to tackle sometime in the future.