It's still useful without, for instance to implement a command that
takes no options, or to check min-args or max-args.
(technically no optspecs, no min/max args and --ignore-unknown does
nothing, but that's a very specific error that we don't need to forbid)
Fixes#9006
Previously, when we got an unknown option with --ignore-unknown, we
would increment woptind but still try to read the same contents.
This means in e.g.
```
argparse -i h -- -ooo -h
```
The `-h` would also be skipped as an option, because after the first
`-o` getopt reads the other two `-o` and skips that many options.
This could be handled more extensively in wgetopt, but the simpler fix
is to just skip to the next argv entry once we have an unknown option
- there's nothing more we can do with it anyway!
Additionally, document this and clearly explain that we currently
don't transform the option.
Fixes#8637
It was always a bit ridiculous that argparse required `X-longflag` if
that "X" short flag was never actually used anywhere.
Since the short letter is for getopt's benefit, we can hack around
this with our old friend: Unicode Private Use Areas.
We have a counter, starting at 0xE000 and going to 0xF8FF, that counts
up for all options that don't have a short flag and provides one. This
gives us up to 6400 long-only options.
6.4K should be enough for everybody.
"function --argument" is not a thing, it's "--argument-names". This only
accidentally works because our getopt is awful and allows abbreviated
long options.
Similarly, one argparse test used "--d" instead of "-d" or "--def".
A broken/missing optspec or `--` is a bug in the script using
argparse, an unknown option or invalid argument is a bug in using that script.
So in the former case print a stacktrace, because the person writing
the `argparse` call is at fault, in the latter don't.
Fixes#6703.
Travis puts the commit message in an environment variable, so if it
contains the string `_flag` this would match TRAVIS_COMMIT_MESSAGE.
That happened in ca91c201c3, so the
tests failed.
We simply tighten the regex a little more, and make a commit message
that doesn't include the string.
This is a nice test (ha!) for how this works and what littlecheck can
do for us.
1. Input is now the actual file, not "Standard Input" anymore. So
any errors mentioning that now include the filename.
2. Regex are really nice for filenames, but especially for line
numbers
3. It's much nicer to have the output where it's created, instead of
needing to follow three files at the same time.
