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pcapriotti / optparse-applicative

Applicative option parser
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Default command and command alias #484

Open bingis-khan opened 1 year ago

bingis-khan commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to create an alias of a command? For example in the help menu, under "Available commands", there would be something like this:

Available commands:
  search, s                         Do some searching or whatever.
  ...

Also might be related: is it possible to specify a defaut command?

Note that all of the things above are possible with a liberal use of Alternative, but these make the help menu much less appealing:

                                    \/-- looks meh
Usage: surcher [(-p|--port PORT) | COMMAND] [-d|--dir PATH]

Available options:
  -p,--port PORT           Port on which to serve the web interface.  <- this should probably be only visible in the help menu for "serve"
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Available commands:
  search                   Execute a single search with a query.
  s                        Serve a website for searching. <- """""alias"""""
  serve                    Serve a website for searching.