Let --remove-macros accept a space-delimited list and/or update documentation

[orrp]

Thank you so much for this wonderful tool. I have a small suggestion as a new user.

Suppose there are three macros I would like TeXtidote to ignore: mymacro0, mymacro1 and mymacro2.

Because the --remove-macros option refers to macros in the plural, I would expect it to be used as follows:

textidote --remove-macros mymacro1 mymacro2 mymacro3 main.tex

However, this does not work and instead I must invoke textidote with:

textidote --remove-macros mymacro1 --remove-macros mymacro2 --remove-macros mymacro3 main.tex

I suggest modifying command line parsing so that --remove-macros accepts a list of macros as in the first snippet above. Note that if the list is of length one we recover the current behavior, so this is not a breaking change. An easier fix would be to rename the option to --remove-macro, although I think this is less desirable from a usability standpoint.

[orrp]

Update: I just noticed #250, which is related to the above issue (I missed it because the title refers to environments rather than macros). I seems that specifying multiple commas via a comma-separated list is supported. However, this is not mentioned in the --help documentation.

Accepting a space-delimited list of macros is more consistent with UNIX command line tools, so I would still suggest changing the behavior to be as in the first code snippet in my original post, and updating the documentation in --help to say something of the sort:

--remove-macros mac-1 ... mac-n   Remove LaTeX macros specified by a space-delimited list.

[sylvainhalle]

I agree. This will require an update to the underlying command line parser; an issue is already open for this: sylvainhalle/Bullwinkle#17