Is there a way to make clap treat -? the same way as -h?

Question

The clap crate implements built-in behaviour for the -h option, but it doesn't seem to do the same for -?. Is there a way to tell it to do so?

Answer 1

I had opened an issue at the clap repository. The author / main contributor has answered there. Here is a copy of the code, which answers the question:

extern crate clap;

use std::env;
use std::process;

use clap::{App, Arg};

fn main() {
    // We build the App instance and save it, so we can
    // use it later if needed
    let mut app = App::new("prog").arg(
        Arg::with_name("help")
            .short("?")
            .help("Also prints the help message"),
    );

    // We call this method which will do all the
    //parsing, but not consume our App instance
    let res = app.get_matches_from_safe_borrow(env::args_os());

    // This calls all the normal clap error messages
    // if one should exist
    let matches = res.unwrap_or_else(|e| e.exit());

    // Now we check for ?
    if matches.is_present("help") {
        let _ = app.print_help();
        println!(""); // adds a newline
        process::exit(0);
    }

    // Now we can use matches like normal...
}