`#[clap(about)]` only overrides `about`. If the doc comment also sets
`long_about`, it won't be overridden. This change is to help raise
visibility of reseting `long_about` in these cases.
`clap_generate` originally intended to be "generate anything". With
`fig`, we already broke one part out. With #3174's man support, we are
also looking at keeping it separate:
- More freedom to iterate on the API
- Uniqueness (and potential weight) of its dependencies
- man generation is normally more for distribution while completions are
a mix of being distributed with the app or the app generating the
completions (which will be exacerbated if we move most completion
parsing logic to be in Rust)
So `clap_generate` is having a lot more limited of a role than the
original name conveys. I worry the generic name will be a hindrance to
people discovering and using it (yes, documentation can help but there
are limits).
I hesitated because we are on the verge of releasing 3.0. However, doing
it even later will be even more disruptive because more people will be
using it (crates.io lists ~70 people using `clap_generate`).
To ease things, we are still releasing `clap_generate` as a wrapper
around `clap_complete`.
This creates distinct tutorial examples from complex feature examples
(more how-tos). Both sets are getting builder / derive versions (at
least the critical ones).
I've been finding I've been setting `AppSettings` without it which is
likely leading to bugs. This tries to raise the visibility by using it
based on the setting being used and not whether the application needs
it.
Too many times people have to disable default features. Let's try to
have a more minimal out of box experience.
- `derive`: people are already used to adding this feature for serde
- `cargo`: not needed for derive
- `env`: most probably don't use this
- `unicode`: most CLIs are probably ASCII. We should do a debug warn
about this though
BREAKING CHANGE: `derive`, `cargo`, `env`, and `unicode` are no longer
on by default.
Since usage parser and yaml are on the way to being deprecated (#8, #9),
doing a rename also seems excessive, so rolling it back.
Past relevant PRs:
- clap-rs/clap#1157
- clap-rs/clap#1257
This reverts commits 24cb8b1..d0abb37 from clap-rs/clap#1840
This is part of #16. clap-rs/clap#1840 wasn't the right call but we
don't have time to make the decision now, so instead of having one
option and changing it in 4.0, this reverts back to clap2 behavior.
2817: Add support for Multicall executables as subcommands with a Multicall setting r=pksunkara a=fishface60
Co-authored-by: Richard Maw <richard.maw@gmail.com>
For those that want the original behavior, you can usxe
`arg.help_heading(Some("FLAGS"))` on your flags. Limitations:
- This will not give you a special sort order
- This will not get a `[FLAGS]` added to usage
For templates, we removed `{unified}` and `{flags}`. To help people
catch these, a debug_assert was added.
I'm unsure but I think there might be a change in behavior in calcuating
when to show `[OPTION]` in usage. The old code only looked at
`required` while flags looked only at arg groups. We now look at both.
Ideally we'd add these in `_build` and remove special casing for
no-groups except in the sort order of groups. I feel like thats best
left for later.
This also reduced the scope of `App`s public API.
`get_*_with_no_heading` seemed a bit specialized to be in the public
API. #2853 looks at splitting it out into its own PR.
BREAKING CHANGE: Multiple
- `UnifiedHelpMessage` removed
- `{flags}` and `{unified}` are removed and will assert when present.
- `get_*_with_no_heading` removed
Fixes#2807
A lot of users expected `color` feature flag and `ColorAuto` etc to
control all colors. Having this extra flag around is easy to miss and
adds to our overall settings bloat, making it harder to find settings
people want.
This completely removes it, rather than make it deprecated like
functions in #2617, because there is extra work to mark things
deprecated as Settings and we should decide on our strategy first before
investing time in addressing that issue.
Fixes#2806
Before #2005, `Clap` was a special trait that derived all clap traits it
detected were relevant (including an enum getting both `ArgEnum`,
`Clap`, and `Subcommand`). Now, we have elevated `Clap`, `Args`,
`Subcommand`, and `ArgEnum` to be user facing but the name `Clap` isn't
very descriptive.
This also helps further clarify the relationships so a crate providing
an item to be `#[clap(flatten)]` or `#[clap(subcommand)]` is more likely
to choose the needed trait to derive.
Also, my proposed fix fo #2785 includes making `App` attributes almost
exclusively for `Clap`. Clarifying the names/roles will help
communicate this.
For prior discussion, see #2583
