Bug#361105: RFE: GOption output should tabulate long help messages, not break the line mid-word.

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le jeudi 06 avril 2006 à 17:27 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit :
> Package: libglib2.0-0
> Version: 2.10.1-2
> Severity: wishlist
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> GOption help output gets very ugly and almost unusable with long help
> messages.
> 
> GOption output:
> 
> - --invoice-vendor            Shorthand to relate an event or expense to
> a contact, by vendor. Requires -t.
> - --invoice-city              Shorthand to relate an event or expense to
> a contact, by city. Requires -t.
> 
> Compare with the equivalent popt output:
> - --invoice-vendor            Shorthand to relate an event or expense to a
>                             contact, by vendor. Requires -t.
> - --invoice-city              Shorthand to relate an event or expense to a
>                             contact, by city. Requires -t.
> 
> GOption also breaks help messages mid-word which just makes things ugly:
> 
> - --debug                     Print debugging information to a temporary fi
> le.
> 
> I was hoping to replace popt with GOption but I'll have to live with the
> popt dependency until GOption produces content that is at least as
> pleasant for users as popt.

hi,

Could you copy what popt does for the same application or maybe a some
code example to compare both?