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  • swipl
    • library
      • error.pl
      • debug.pl
      • apply.pl -- Apply predicates on a list
      • lists.pl -- List Manipulation
      • broadcast.pl -- Event service
      • shlib.pl
      • option.pl
      • thread_pool.pl
      • gensym.pl -- Generate unique symbols
      • settings.pl -- Setting management
      • arithmetic.pl -- Extensible arithmetic
      • main.pl -- Provide entry point for scripts
        • main/0
        • argv_options/3
        • argv_options/4
        • argv_usage/1
        • cli_parse_debug_options/2
        • cli_debug_opt_type/3
        • cli_debug_opt_help/2
        • cli_debug_opt_meta/2
        • cli_enable_development_system/0
      • readutil.pl -- Read utilities
      • operators.pl -- Manage operators
      • pairs.pl -- Operations on key-value lists
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • quasi_quotations.pl
      • sandbox.pl -- Sandboxed Prolog code
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • yall.pl -- Lambda expressions
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl
      • pure_input.pl -- Pure Input from files and streams
      • solution_sequences.pl -- Modify solution sequences
      • ordsets.pl
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
      • base64.pl
      • aggregate.pl
      • predicate_options.pl -- Access and analyse predicate options
      • csv.pl
      • pprint.pl -- Pretty Print Prolog terms
      • atom.pl -- Operations on atoms
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl -- Finding and counting sub-terms
      • prolog_xref.pl
      • prolog_colour.pl -- Prolog syntax colouring support.
      • lazy_lists.pl -- Lazy list handling
      • ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library
      • url.pl
      • www_browser.pl -- Open a URL in the users browser
      • prolog_pack.pl
      • git.pl -- Run GIT commands
      • utf8.pl
      • quintus.pl -- Quintus compatibility
      • prolog_versions.pl -- Demand specific (Prolog) versions
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
      • dialect.pl -- Support multiple Prolog dialects
      • date.pl -- Process dates and times
      • persistency.pl -- Provide persistent dynamic predicates
      • iostream.pl -- Utilities to deal with streams
      • prolog_code.pl -- Utilities for reasoning about code
      • strings.pl
      • dif.pl -- The dif/2 constraint
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • terms.pl -- Term manipulation
      • ansi_term.pl -- Print decorated text to ANSI consoles
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • prolog_stack.pl -- Examine the Prolog stack
      • prolog_clause.pl
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl
      • wfs.pl
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl
      • varnumbers.pl -- Utilities for numbered terms
      • rbtrees.pl -- Red black trees
      • backcomp.pl -- Backward compatibility
      • charsio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • base32.pl
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • statistics.pl
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • ctypes.pl -- Character code classification
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • thread.pl -- High level thread primitives
      • prolog_profile.pl -- Execution profiler
      • optparse.pl
      • prolog_jiti.pl -- Just In Time Indexing (JITI) utilities
      • listing.pl -- List programs and pretty print clauses
      • prolog_codewalk.pl
      • prolog_metainference.pl
      • portray_text.pl -- Portray text
      • hashtable.pl
      • streams.pl -- Manage Prolog streams
      • zip.pl -- Access resource ZIP archives
      • nb_set.pl -- Non-backtrackable sets
      • edit.pl
      • prolog_coverage.pl
      • qsave.pl
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • increval.pl -- Incremental dynamic predicate modification
      • tables.pl -- XSB interface to tables
      • shell.pl
      • make.pl
      • files.pl
      • prolog_history.pl
      • check_installation.pl -- Check installation issues and features
      • prolog_deps.pl
      • writef.pl
      • tableutil.pl -- Table inspection and statistics utilities
      • help.pl -- Text based manual
      • prolog_autoload.pl
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • intercept.pl -- Intercept and signal interface
      • nb_rbtrees.pl
      • macros.pl
      • readln.pl
      • vm.pl
      • prolog_config.pl
      • system.pl
      • rwlocks.pl
      • explain.pl -- Describe Prolog Terms
      • exceptions.pl
      • qpforeign.pl
      • oset.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • fastrw.pl
      • tty.pl
 argv_usage(:Level) is det
Use print_message/2 to print a usage message at Level. To print the message as plain text indefault color, use debug. Other meaningful options are informational or warning. The help page consists of four sections, two of which are optional:
  1. The header is created from opt_help(help(header), String). It is optional.
  2. The usage is added by default. The part behind Usage: <command> is by default [options] and can be overruled using opt_help(help(usage), String).
  3. The actual option descriptions. The options are presented in the order they are defined in opt_type/3. Subsequent options for the same destination (option name) are joined with the first.
  4. The footer_ is created from opt_help(help(footer), String). It is optional.

The help provided by help(header), help(usage) and help(footer) are either a simple string or a list of elements as defined by print_message_lines/3. In the latter case, the construct \Callable can be used to call a DCG rule in the module from which the user calls argv_options/3. For example, we can add a bold title using

opt_help(help(header), [ansi(bold, '~w', ['My title'])]).