Support showing global options in help #1828
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Pull Request
Commander has long supported options at both the program level and in subcommands, but using both at once was a little subtle for both the author and the end-user.
Problem
In the Help you can't see all the options at once for a subcommand when the program has global options.
See: #1078 #1689
The global options poll has continued accumulating votes for displaying global options after the poll was closed. #1551 (comment)
Solution
Add help configuration to show the global options. This is off by default so can go in a feature version without changing behaviour of executing programs.
The global options are included in the padding calculations and are optional sorted.
The global options are shown in a separate section. This is the layout that was shown in #1551 (comment)).
Using the updated example file:
ChangeLog
showGlobalOptions
to.configureHelp{}