[GRASS-dev] [bug #4368] (grass) g.parser: pass through --o

[Jachym Cepicky]

ok, thank you for explanation.

all the best

jachym

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:31:09AM -0700, Cedric Shock wrote:
> Jachym,
> 
> The --o flag has been in grass for a long time. Things that start -- in grass 
> are options to the parser, things that start - are flags that are parsed by 
> the parser for the module. --o tells the parser not to check that to make 
> sure elements in "new" gisprompts don't exist.
> 
> The following are also parser options, all of these options must be the first 
> argument:
> --help
> show usage and exit. Also -help and help work for ease.
> 
> --interface-description
> Print out xml description of command line interface and exit
> 
> --html-description
> Print out html usage help for command to be integrated in manual pages.
> 
> --tcltk
> Print out tcl/tk source code to be evaluated after sourcing gui.tcl to make a 
> user interface. This is for user interfaces like d.m and gis.m.
> 
> --ui
> Force the gui user interface to run. This can be used by itself or in 
> combination with options and flags to preload those options and flags into 
> the ui. This could be changed so that it doesn't need to be the first 
> argument, since it doesn't preempt parsing.
> 
> --o and --overwrite
> These don't need to be in the first argument. They override existing map check 
> for this command only.
> 
> Note that overwrite can also be set by g.gisenv so that it happens 
> automatically for all commands. Some users (at least me) prefer to not have 
> maps automatically overwritten, but for it to be easy to do for a single 
> command.
> 
> The only recent change was adding --o to the help. It was added to module help 
> because it is specifically useful for modules that employ a new gisprompt.
> 
> 
> --Cedric

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