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launch file: parameters via -- (double dash) don't go well with commenting

asked 2021-11-23 11:15:25 -0600

ticotico
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updated 2021-11-23 11:16:38 -0600

I have a rqt being loaded with a custom perspective, see:

<node name="my_rqt_dashboard" pkg="rqt_gui" type="rqt_gui" respawn="false" output="screen" 
    args="--perspective-file $(find my_rospkg)/cfg/viz/asdf.perspective"/>

My "problem" is that commenting out that line breaks the xml, as double hyphen are not allowed in comments, see Link. A workaround is to use -- instead of --, but that is kind of ugly. Any other ideas? Unfortunately, the --perspective-file does not seem to have a single hyphen equivalent, e.g. -q

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I put a space in between the two hyphens, so I have . In my particular case it's a gdb command line, and luckily its argument parser interprets - -foo as --foo, so I don't need to remember to remove the space when commenting back in. FYI, this is my usual way for debugging a crashing node .

KenYN ( 2021-11-25 22:56:51 -0600 )edit

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answered 2021-11-23 18:26:42 -0600

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updated 2021-11-23 18:28:49 -0600

There seems to be a way to make comments like this.

<?ignore
<node name="my_rqt_dashboard" pkg="rqt_gui" type="rqt_gui" respawn="false" output="screen" 
    args="--perspective-file $(find my_rospkg)/cfg/viz/asdf.perspective"/>
?>

( <?ignore <stuff> ?>, and <stuff> is said to be a comment. )

ref : https://norlab.ulaval.ca/research/how...

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nice, thx a lot! too bad that there is no out of the box shortcut for that...

ticotico ( 2021-11-24 10:52:40 -0600 )edit

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