How to influence command line arguments help facility

• To: curt@eraserhead.jpl.nasa.gov, clim@BBN.COM
• Subject: How to influence command line arguments help facility
• From: "William M. York" <York@chuck-jones.west.dialnet.ila.com>
• Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 11:28-0700
• In-Reply-To: <9205201524.AA00295@eraserhead.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>

    Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 08:24 PDT
    From: Curt Eggemeyer <curt@eraserhead.jpl.nasa.gov>

    I've notice in my commands the following operation.  It works fine but I wish
    to change the accept help on args within my application commands illustrated
    by the following example.  Assuming that the argument(s) in the command are
    completion, member and other one-of and some-of presentation types.  With the
    prompt for that argument displayed if you use control-? to get the
    possibilities in which you can select on. You get redundant information
    outputted as part of the help.  (Example below)

You want to use the :DESCRIPTION option in your presentation type
specifications for the command arguments.  Try:

(accept '((member 1 2 4 8 16 32) :description "power of two")
	:stream win)

for an example.

• How to influence command line arguments help facility
• From: Curt Eggemeyer <curt@eraserhead.jpl.nasa.gov>

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