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  • swipl
    • library
      • error.pl
      • debug.pl -- Print debug messages and test assertions
      • apply.pl -- Apply predicates on a list
      • lists.pl -- List Manipulation
      • broadcast.pl
      • shlib.pl -- Utility library for loading foreign objects (DLLs, shared objects)
      • option.pl
      • thread_pool.pl -- Resource bounded thread management
      • 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
      • pairs.pl -- Operations on key-value lists
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • quasi_quotations.pl -- Define Quasi Quotation syntax
      • sandbox.pl
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • yall.pl -- Lambda expressions
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl -- Analyse format specifications
      • pure_input.pl -- Pure Input from files and streams
      • solution_sequences.pl -- Modify solution sequences
      • ordsets.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
      • base64.pl -- Base64 encoding and decoding
      • aggregate.pl -- Aggregation operators on backtrackable predicates
      • predicate_options.pl -- Access and analyse predicate options
      • csv.pl -- Process CSV (Comma-Separated Values) data
      • pprint.pl
      • atom.pl -- Operations on atoms
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl
      • prolog_xref.pl
      • prolog_colour.pl -- Prolog syntax colouring support.
      • lazy_lists.pl
      • ugraphs.pl
      • url.pl -- Analysing and constructing URL
      • www_browser.pl -- Open a URL in the users browser
      • prolog_pack.pl -- A package manager for Prolog
      • git.pl
      • utf8.pl -- UTF-8 encoding/decoding on lists of character codes.
      • quintus.pl -- Quintus compatibility
      • prolog_versions.pl -- Demand specific (Prolog) versions
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
      • dialect.pl
      • 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 -- String utilities
      • dif.pl
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • terms.pl
      • ansi_term.pl
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • prolog_stack.pl -- Examine the Prolog stack
      • prolog_clause.pl
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl -- Manage Prolog break-points
      • wfs.pl -- Well Founded Semantics interface
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl -- Dict utilities
      • varnumbers.pl
      • rbtrees.pl -- Red black trees
      • backcomp.pl -- Backward compatibility
      • charsio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • hashtable.pl
      • base32.pl -- Base32 encoding and decoding
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • statistics.pl -- Get information about resource usage
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • ctypes.pl -- Character code classification
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • macros.pl
      • tables.pl -- XSB interface to tables
      • listing.pl -- List programs and pretty print clauses
      • qpforeign.pl -- Quintus compatible foreign loader
      • check_installation.pl -- Check installation issues and features
      • system.pl
      • qsave.pl
      • zip.pl -- Access resource ZIP archives
      • increval.pl
      • edit.pl
      • prolog_coverage.pl
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • pio.pl -- Pure I/O
      • prolog_codewalk.pl -- Prolog code walker
      • optparse.pl -- command line parsing
      • prolog_profile.pl -- Execution profiler
      • oset.pl
      • help.pl
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • shell.pl -- Elementary shell commands
      • nb_set.pl -- Non-backtrackable sets
      • streams.pl -- Manage Prolog streams
      • intercept.pl -- Intercept and signal interface
      • exceptions.pl -- Exception classification
      • thread.pl -- High level thread primitives
      • writef.pl -- Old-style formatted write
      • prolog_metainference.pl
      • prolog_jiti.pl
      • make.pl -- Reload modified source files
      • prolog_deps.pl
      • fastrw.pl
      • vm.pl
      • tty.pl
      • explain.pl
      • portray_text.pl
      • rwlocks.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'])]).