On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Tom Pollard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to submit a patch for optparse.rb to make it easier to add general 
> text to the usage summary.  There were three things I wanted to change:
>
> 1. Fix OptionParser#separator so that it correctly handles strings containing
>    newlines.
> 2. Introduce 'text' as and alias for the 'separator' method, since the latter
>    doesn't sound appropriate for adding a paragraph of text at a time.
> 3. Add a 'bottom_text' method, which would force the text to appear after the
>    option summary.
>
> Before I submitted this, I thought I'd ask for comments, or additional 
> suggestions.

I only comment on the last item, since I don't know OptionParser enough. 
#3 sounds really useful to me.
*t

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