Harmonize Command Line Switches and Configuration File Options

[ahkneipp]

Several of the command line switches do not correspond to any options in the config files. These should match wherever possible.

Here's a list of all the command line switches I could find that aren't supported in config files

• output_file (-f, --output-file)
• config_file (-c, --config-file) (may be a bit redundant and unnecessary, but could have utility)
• extra_data_dir (-E, --extra-data-dir)
• width (-W, --width)
• height (-H, --height)
• landscape_paper (-landscape,--landscape-paper)
• force_messier (-fmessier, --force-messier)
• force_asterism (-fasterism, --force-asterisms)
• force_unknown (-funknown, --force-unknown)
• language (-l,--language)
• show_catalogs (-sc, --show-catalogs)
• cross (-x, --add-cross)
• caption (-p, --caption)
• mirror_x (-mx, --mirror-x)
• mirror_y (-my, --mirror-y)
• observation_time (-t)
• trajectory_from (--trajectory-from)
• trajectory_to (--trajectory-to)
• mpc_comets_file (--mpc-comets-file)
• mpc_minor_planets_file (--mpc-minor-planets-file)
• verbosity (-v)
• target_right_ascension (positional, part of the target)
• target_declination (positional, part of the target)
• target_altitude (positional)
• target_azimuth (positional)

There are a few more switches that don't make sense to include in a config file (like --update-comets); I haven't included those in the above list.

[skybber]

Thanks for the report. I aligned the config with the CLI, except:

• output_file: this is a per-run output target
• config_file: this selects which config files to load, so supporting it inside config would be circular.
• highlight: please elaborate, what do you mean by this

Please, have you a concrete use case where output_file or config_file would be useful in config files?

[ahkneipp]

Wow! I wasn't expecting an update that fast!

Apologies, I think the highlight line was added by mistake when I meant to be typing in another window. I was going back and forth between github and a spreadsheet to compare the config options with the command line options. I think I was searching for "highlight" to group all the highlighting-related options together. I've removed it from the original issue.

Config files referenced from other config files could enable an "#include" type system, but I certainly don't think it's necessary, I just included it for completion.

output_file could be useful to provide a config file as a complete source to generate a given image (rather than sharing the image directly), but again, it was mostly included for completeness.

Thank you for being so responsive on this project!