GLibOptionContextset_description

since: 2.12

void
g_option_context_set_description (
  GOptionContext* context,
  const gchar* description
)

Adds a string to be displayed in --help output after the list of options. This text often includes a bug reporting address.

Note that the summary is translated (see g_option_context_set_translate_func()).

Available since: 2.12

description

Type: const gchar*

A string to be shown in --help output after the list of options, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.