Possibility to create hidden commands about optparse-applicative HOT 6 CLOSED

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from optparse-applicative.

Edit: my particular need is covered by 31e208d – but it's not released, so I can't use it :-(

I'd like something like this too.

Concretely, I spell with British English ("analyse"), but I want to be able to support American English users too ("analyze"). So really what I want is a way to specify synonyms that identify a single command. But a hidden command would do as a workaround.

from optparse-applicative.

One can create a hidden subparser which contains all the aliases, and use alternative to use either the shown commands or the hidden ones.

from optparse-applicative.

Also internal works with Mod CommandFields which will really not show the commands in the subparser (with hidden they will show in full descriptions).

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I'm satisfied that this is possible. Closing.

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Ok, @HuwCampbell 's solution worked for me. Might perhaps be worth mentioning it in the docs for hidden or internal.

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