Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #12091: help2man compatibility: add one more space between "arg" and description

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Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:25:19 GMT

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Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:25:36 GMT

attachment → potest.C

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Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:25:49 GMT

attachment → potest.help2man

Vladimir Prus — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:34:44 GMT

Timo,

thanks for your report. However, at presents I'm a bit reluctant to change output format to accomodate a particular tool. I don't think this was a concern anybody raised previously.

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:52:07 GMT

for options without arguments there are at least two spaces, so the bug is in the probably unwanted special behavior for options with arguments

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Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:56:10 GMT

attachment → 0001-improve-option_column_width-calculation.patch

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:50:27 GMT

OK, I looked into the source and found out that two spaces are intended according to a comment in options_description::get_option_column_width().

I found more subtle bugs in this function and fixed them as well, the function should now also be easier to understand.

Beware: the patch is only compile-tested with vim-youcompleteme, I don't have a test infrastructure set up for boost.

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Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:14:14 GMT

attachment → 0002-fixup-improve-option_column_width-calculation.patch

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Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:16:32 GMT

version Boost 1.58.0 → Boost 1.61.0

I've had the time to actually build it and fixed an off-by-one error (attached).