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@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ Generate option value modifiers in addition to accessors\. Generate functions for determining whether the option was specified on the command line\. +.IP "\fB--generate-parse\fP" +Generate \fBparse()\fP functions instead of parsing constructors\. This is +primarily useful for being able to parse into an already initialized options +class instance, for example, to implement merging/overriding\. + .IP "\fB--generate-description\fP" Generate the option description list that can be examined at runtime\. @@ -107,6 +112,13 @@ If no short documentation string is provided, use the complete long documentation string in usage\. By default, in this situation only the first sentence from the long string is used\. +.IP "\fB--short-usage\fP" +If specified together with \fB--long-usage\fP, generate both short and long +usage versions\. In this mode, the usage printing functions are called +\fBprint_short_usage()\fP and \fBprint_long_usage()\fP and for the long +usage the long documentation string is always used, even if the short +version is provided\. + .IP "\fB--option-length\fP \fIlen\fP" Indent option descriptions \fIlen\fP characters when printing usage\. This is useful when you have multiple options classes, potentially in separate |