clikt issues

Talk about CliKt (Kotlin + GraalVM)

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Hey @ajalt! Thanks for this awesome library. Yesterday, I gave a presentation about using Kotlin, CliKt and GraalVM to create a platform native binary. If you'd like, you could add...

trietsch

Advanced help message formatting?

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Is there a possiblity to format the help message with your own paragraphs and font styles like bold or italic ? I'd like to add examples to my cli and...

kgruhler

Clikt + jline

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Hello. I'm trying to use Clikt with [jline](https://github.com/jline/jline3). I was already using Clikt in a REPL to minimize startup time. I'm encoutering a few issues. In order to build the...

mel4tonin4

Wrapping text in echo

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Consider that I want to wrap some text to a fixed number of characters regardless of any other mechanisms to determine the width. Currently, I have to implement my own...

TheTeXnician

Design issue: Clikt uses Inheritance instead of Composition

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I think there is a design issue in Clikt, It tries todo too much. Ideally I just want to have an argument parser, and use that where-ever its needed. (Command...

tjerkw

Missing features not documented in Kotlin/Native

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`path()` and `file()` appear to only be available in JVM, but this isn't mentioned in the docs: https://ajalt.github.io/clikt/advanced/#multiplatform-support

amirabiri

[QUESTION] Validate input arguments without running the command

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Is it possible to validate the command's input arguments without having to execute it? What I want: ``` assertFailsWith { MyCommand().parse(listOf("...")) } ``` ...but without necessarily executing the command, which...

alegomes

Feature request: generation of man pages or AsciiDoc

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I am exploring options for command line interfaces for Kotlin, and found this library. One of my needs is an export to unix man pages or AsciiDoc files. --- [picocli](https://picocli.info/#_generate_man_page_documentation)...

kravemir