/usr/local/lib/swipl/library/main.pl
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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 -- Event service
      • shlib.pl
      • option.pl -- Option list processing
      • 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
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • quasi_quotations.pl -- Define Quasi Quotation syntax
      • pure_input.pl
      • solution_sequences.pl
      • ordsets.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
      • base64.pl -- Base64 encoding and decoding
      • aggregate.pl -- Aggregation operators on backtrackable predicates
      • yall.pl
      • sandbox.pl
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl -- Analyse format specifications
      • predicate_options.pl
      • csv.pl -- Process CSV (Comma-Separated Values) data
      • pprint.pl
      • atom.pl
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl -- Finding and counting sub-terms
      • prolog_xref.pl -- Prolog cross-referencer data collection
      • prolog_colour.pl
      • lazy_lists.pl -- Lazy list handling
      • ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library
      • url.pl -- Analysing and constructing URL
      • www_browser.pl
      • prolog_pack.pl
      • git.pl -- Run GIT commands
      • utf8.pl
      • dialect.pl -- Support multiple Prolog dialects
      • system.pl -- System utilities
      • terms.pl -- Term manipulation
      • date.pl -- Process dates and times
      • persistency.pl -- Provide persistent dynamic predicates
      • iostream.pl -- Utilities to deal with streams
      • prolog_stack.pl
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • prolog_clause.pl
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl
      • wfs.pl -- Well Founded Semantics interface
      • prolog_code.pl -- Utilities for reasoning about code
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl -- Dict utilities
      • dif.pl -- The dif/2 constraint
      • varnumbers.pl -- Utilities for numbered terms
      • pio.pl -- Pure I/O
      • base32.pl -- Base32 encoding and decoding
      • charsio.pl
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • rbtrees.pl -- Red black trees
      • statistics.pl -- Get information about resource usage
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • backcomp.pl
      • prolog_versions.pl -- Demand specific (Prolog) versions
      • ansi_term.pl
      • thread.pl
      • listing.pl
      • zip.pl
      • quintus.pl
      • writef.pl -- Old-style formatted write
      • optparse.pl -- command line parsing
      • edit.pl -- Editor interface
      • prolog_coverage.pl
      • nb_set.pl
      • prolog_codewalk.pl
      • prolog_metainference.pl -- Infer meta-predicate properties
      • prolog_profile.pl -- Execution profiler
      • rwlocks.pl -- Read/write locks
      • make.pl -- Reload modified source files
      • macros.pl -- Macro expansion
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • intercept.pl
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • ctypes.pl -- Character code classification
      • increval.pl
      • tables.pl
      • prolog_jiti.pl -- Just In Time Indexing (JITI) utilities
      • strings.pl -- String utilities
      • tty.pl
      • streams.pl
      • files.pl
      • prolog_autoload.pl
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • help.pl -- Text based manual
      • fastrw.pl -- Fast reading and writing of terms
      • readln.pl
      • shell.pl -- Elementary shell commands
      • prolog_history.pl
      • prolog_config.pl
      • hashtable.pl
      • explain.pl
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
 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'])]).