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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>\r
+Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/2] cli: add support for hierarchical command line option\r
+ arrays\r
+Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:30:47 +0200\r
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+\r
+NOTMUCH_OPT_INHERIT expects a notmuch_opt_desc_t * pointer in\r
+output_var.\r
+---\r
+ command-line-arguments.c | 11 +++++++----\r
+ command-line-arguments.h | 1 +\r
+ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/command-line-arguments.c b/command-line-arguments.c\r
+index c6f7269603cb..eb977d0a6fa9 100644\r
+--- a/command-line-arguments.c\r
++++ b/command-line-arguments.c\r
+@@ -122,16 +122,19 @@ parse_position_arg (const char *arg_str, int pos_arg_index,\r
+ */\r
+ \r
+ notmuch_bool_t\r
+-parse_option (const char *arg,\r
+- const notmuch_opt_desc_t *options) {\r
++parse_option (const char *_arg, const notmuch_opt_desc_t *options)\r
++{\r
++ const char *arg = _arg + 2; /* _arg starts with -- */\r
+ \r
+ assert(arg);\r
+ assert(options);\r
+ \r
+- arg += 2;\r
+-\r
+ const notmuch_opt_desc_t *try;\r
+ for (try = options; try->opt_type != NOTMUCH_OPT_END; try++) {\r
++ if (try->opt_type == NOTMUCH_OPT_INHERIT &&\r
++ parse_option (_arg, try->output_var))\r
++ return TRUE;\r
++\r
+ if (! try->name)\r
+ continue;\r
+ \r
+diff --git a/command-line-arguments.h b/command-line-arguments.h\r
+index 6444129ad2d0..309aaf2b37b8 100644\r
+--- a/command-line-arguments.h\r
++++ b/command-line-arguments.h\r
+@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@\r
+ \r
+ enum notmuch_opt_type {\r
+ NOTMUCH_OPT_END = 0,\r
++ NOTMUCH_OPT_INHERIT, /* another options table */\r
+ NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, /* --verbose */\r
+ NOTMUCH_OPT_INT, /* --frob=8 */\r
+ NOTMUCH_OPT_KEYWORD, /* --format=raw|json|text */\r
+-- \r
+2.1.1\r
+\r