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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Carlo Arenas" <carenas@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] parse-options: properly align continued usage output
Date: Wed,  1 Sep 2021 13:12:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <patch-2.2-ab4bb70902b-20210901T110917Z-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover-0.2-00000000000-20210901T110917Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Some commands such as "git stash" emit continued options output with
e.g. "git stash -h", because usage_with_options_internal() prefixes
with its own whitespace the resulting output wasn't properly
aligned. Let's account for the added whitespace, which properly aligns
the output.

The "git stash" command has usage output with a N_() translation that
legitimately stretches across multiple lines;

	N_("git stash [push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]\n"
	   "          [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-m|--message <message>]\n"

We'd like to have that output aligned with the length of the initial
"git stash " output, but since usage_with_options_internal() adds its
own whitespace prefixing we fell short, before this change we'd emit:

    $ git stash -h
    usage: git stash list [<options>]
       or: git stash show [<options>] [<stash>]
       [...]
       or: git stash [push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]
              [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-m|--message <message>]
              [...]

Now we'll properly emit aligned output.  I.e. the last four lines
above will instead be (a whitespace-only change to the above):

       [...]
       or: git stash [push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]
                     [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-m|--message <message>]
                     [...]

In making this change we can can fold the two for-loops over *usagestr
into one. We had two of them purely to account for the case where an
empty string in the array delimits the usage output from free-form
text output.

We could skip the string_list_split() with a strchr(str, '\n') check,
but we'd then need to duplicate our state machine for strings that do
and don't contain a "\n". It's simpler to just always split into a
"struct string_list", even though the common case is that that "struct
string_list" will contain only one element. This is not
performance-sensitive code.

This change is relatively more complex since I've accounted for making
it future-proof for RTL translation support. Later in
usage_with_options_internal() we have some existing padding code
dating back to d7a38c54a6c (parse-options: be able to generate usages
automatically, 2007-10-15) which isn't RTL-safe, but that code would
be easy to fix. Let's not introduce new RTL translation problems here.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 parse-options.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index 2abff136a17..a06968bf4f5 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -917,25 +917,78 @@ static int usage_with_options_internal(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
 	FILE *outfile = err ? stderr : stdout;
 	int need_newline;
 
+	const char *usage_prefix = _("usage: %s");
+	/*
+	 * TRANSLATORS: the colon here should align with the
+	 * one in "usage: %s" translation.
+	 */
+	const char *or_prefix = _("   or: %s");
+	/*
+	 * TRANSLATORS: You should only need to translate this format
+	 * string if your language is a RTL language (e.g. Arabic,
+	 * Hebrew etc.), not if it's a LTR language (e.g. German,
+	 * Russian, Chinese etc.).
+	 *
+	 * When a translated usage string has an embedded "\n" it's
+	 * because options have wrapped o the next line. The line
+	 * after the "\n" will then be padded to align with the
+	 * command name, such as N_("git cmd [opt]\n<8
+	 * spaces>[opt2]"), where the 8 spaces are the same length as
+	 * "git cmd ".
+	 *
+	 * This format string prints out that already-translated
+	 * line. The "%*s" is whitespace padding to account for the
+	 * padding at the start of the line that we add in this
+	 * function, the "%s" is a line in the (hopefully already
+	 * translated) N_() usage string, which contained embedded
+	 * newlines before we split it up.
+	 */
+	const char *usage_continued = _("%*s%s");
+
+	/*
+	 * The translation could be anything, but we can count on
+	 * msgfmt(1)'s --check option to have asserted that "%s" is in
+	 * the translation. So compute the length of the " or: "
+	 * part. We are assuming that the translator wasn't overly
+	 * clever and used e.g. "%1$s" instead of "%s", there's only
+	 * one "%s" in "or_prefix" above, so there's no reason to do
+	 * so even with a RTL language.
+	 */
+	size_t or_len = strlen(or_prefix) - strlen("%s");
+	int i;
+	int saw_empty_line = 0;
+
 	if (!usagestr)
 		return PARSE_OPT_HELP;
 
 	if (!err && ctx && ctx->flags & PARSE_OPT_SHELL_EVAL)
 		fprintf(outfile, "cat <<\\EOF\n");
 
-	fprintf_ln(outfile, _("usage: %s"), _(*usagestr++));
-	while (*usagestr && **usagestr)
-		/*
-		 * TRANSLATORS: the colon here should align with the
-		 * one in "usage: %s" translation.
-		 */
-		fprintf_ln(outfile, _("   or: %s"), _(*usagestr++));
-	while (*usagestr) {
-		if (**usagestr)
-			fprintf_ln(outfile, _("    %s"), _(*usagestr));
-		else
-			fputc('\n', outfile);
-		usagestr++;
+	for (i = 0; *usagestr; i++) {
+		const char *str = _(*usagestr++);
+		struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
+		unsigned int j;
+
+		string_list_split(&list, str, '\n', -1);
+		for (j = 0; j < list.nr; j++) {
+			const char *line = list.items[j].string;
+
+			if (!saw_empty_line && !*line)
+				saw_empty_line = 1;
+
+			if (saw_empty_line && *line)
+				fprintf_ln(outfile, _("    %s"), line);
+			else if (saw_empty_line)
+				fputc('\n', outfile);
+			else if (!j && !i)
+				fprintf_ln(outfile, usage_prefix, line);
+			else if (!j)
+				fprintf_ln(outfile, or_prefix, line);
+			else
+				fprintf_ln(outfile, usage_continued,
+					   (int)or_len, "", line);
+		}
+		string_list_clear(&list, 0);
 	}
 
 	need_newline = 1;
-- 
2.33.0.807.gf14ecf9c2e9


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-01 11:12 [PATCH 0/2] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-01 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] built-ins: "properly" " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-01 11:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2021-09-10  7:51   ` [PATCH 2/2] parse-options: properly " Eric Sunshine
2021-09-10 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output & related Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] test-lib.sh: add a UNIX_SOCKETS prerequisite Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] git.c: add a NEED_UNIX_SOCKETS option for built-ins Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  0:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  2:50       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  3:47         ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-11  6:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  7:16           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] parse-options: stop supporting "" in the usagestr array Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  0:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  2:46       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  6:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] built-ins: "properly" align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  0:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11  2:40       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  7:41   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output & related Eric Sunshine
2021-09-11 19:08   ` [PATCH v3 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] credential-cache{,--daemon}: don't build under NO_UNIX_SOCKETS Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-12 21:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] blame: replace usage end blurb with better option spec Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-12  4:45       ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-12 22:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] parse-options: stop supporting "" in the usagestr array Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-12 22:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-13  0:21         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] built-ins: "properly" align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 19:09     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13     ` [PATCH v4 0/4] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 1/4] parse-options API users: align usage output in C-strings Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 2/4] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 3/4] git rev-parse --parseopt tests: add more usagestr tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  0:13       ` [PATCH v4 4/4] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13  6:41         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-21 13:30       ` [PATCH v5 0/4] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 1/4] parse-options API users: align usage output in C-strings Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 2/4] send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 3/4] git rev-parse --parseopt tests: add more usagestr tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 13:30         ` [PATCH v5 4/4] parse-options: properly align continued usage output Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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