Getting the flags from the manual

[zerothi]

Since 4.1r765 the manual writes out to a single file all fdf-flags defined.

@arthurfl
Would it make sense to read this in a stringent manner to reduce the cluttering of the siesta.vim file?

I.e. I would like feedback on this possibility and how to do this easily in vim rc files?

[arthurfl]

hi @zerothi ,

That's a very nice feature - I'll give it some thoughts. Treating fdf-flags in a more systematic way would be great, especially for updating. One would need to find a way to broadcast the content of these fdf files into siesta.vim.

I can see two limitations:

• in siesta.vim, fdf-flags are broken down into two subcategories, general (siestaKeys) and output (siestaOutput);
• the regex is not always just the fdf-flag with the allowed ._- insertions (see eg. DMInitBulk): all keywords cannot be treated exactly in the same way, and it doesn't seem possible to avoid exceptions.

[zerothi]

@arthurfl no, I agree. However, just having the plain fdf-flags may provide a substantial fraction of what is necessary?
I can readily extend the .tex document to write-out a list of option names. If this could also provide some more detail?