Walk the option cluster the way the parser does

The helper tested the second character only, which disagreed with the parser
in both directions: it dropped continue mode for -%qi and -%Mi, where the
trailing i does reach the main set, and it still mistook the i of -q%i for
-i, leaving that spelling on the usage screen.

Walk the cluster instead, letting %, &, @ and # take the letter after them
into another set wherever they sit. & matters because the -& to -% rewrite
only fires at position 0, so -q&i reaches the parser as-is.

None of this is reachable through a documented option or an alias, which all
place the prefix first; it keeps the helper honest against hand-written
clusters.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Roche <roche@httrack.com>

src/htscoremain.c

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ HTSEXT_API int hts_main(int argc, char **argv) {
 }
 
 static int hts_main_internal(int argc, char **argv, httrackp * opt);
+static hts_boolean cmdl_shortopt_has(const char *s, char c);
 
 // Main, récupère les paramètres et appelle le robot
 HTSEXT_API int hts_main2(int argc, char **argv, httrackp * opt) {
@@ -304,12 +305,12 @@ static int hts_main_internal(int argc, char **argv, httrackp * opt) {
                      hts_get_version_info(opt));
               return 0;
             } else {
-              if (strncmp(tmp_argv[0], "--", 2)) {      /* pas */
-                if ((strchr(tmp_argv[0], 'q') != NULL))
-                  opt->quiet = 1;       // ne pas poser de questions! (nohup par exemple)
-                if ((strchr(tmp_argv[0], 'i') != NULL)) {       // doit.log!
-                  argv_url = -1;        /* forcer */
-                  opt->quiet = 1;
+              if (strncmp(tmp_argv[0], "--", 2)) { /* not a long option */
+                if (cmdl_shortopt_has(tmp_argv[0], 'q'))
+                  opt->quiet = HTS_TRUE; // never ask questions (nohup)
+                if (cmdl_shortopt_has(tmp_argv[0], 'i')) { // doit.log!
+                  argv_url = -1;
+                  opt->quiet = HTS_TRUE;
                 }
               } else if (strcmp(tmp_argv[0] + 2, "quiet") == 0) {
                 opt->quiet = 1; // ne pas poser de questions! (nohup par exemple)
@@ -2807,6 +2808,32 @@ int check_path(String * s, char *defaultname) {
   return return_value;
 }
 
+/* Does the short-option cluster s carry c from the main option set (-i, -iC2,
+   -%Mi)? Walked as the parser does below: %, &, @ and # each take the letter
+   after them into another set, so the i of -%i is not the main-set -i. */
+static hts_boolean cmdl_shortopt_has(const char *s, char c) {
+  const char *com;
+
+  if (s[0] != '-' || s[1] == '-')
+    return HTS_FALSE;
+  for (com = s + 1; *com != '\0'; com++) {
+    switch (*com) {
+    case '%':
+    case '&':
+    case '@':
+    case '#':
+      if (*(com + 1) != '\0')
+        com++; /* skip the other set's letter */
+      break;
+    default:
+      if (*com == c)
+        return HTS_TRUE;
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  return HTS_FALSE;
+}
+
 // détermine si l'argument est une option
 int cmdl_opt(char *s) {
   if (s[0] == '-') {            // c'est peut être une option

tests/01_engine-cmdline.test

@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ refused() {
         ! echo "FAIL: $1 (exit $RC)" || exit 1
 }
 
+# assert continue mode was entered: it drops the URL list, so with no cache to
+# resume the run ends on the usage screen rather than on any other error
+continued() {
+    { test "$RC" -ne 0 && grep -q 'usage:' "$1/.log"; } ||
+        ! echo "FAIL: $2 (exit $RC)" || exit 1
+}
+
 # a value past the old 126/256 caps but within the cap is accepted, on both the
 # short and long form of each option
 long=$(nchars 900)
@@ -102,4 +109,50 @@ for bad in nan nan:5 5:nan inf 10:5 99999; do
     refused "#185: invalid --pause '$bad' not refused cleanly"
 done
 
+# An option is not -i (continue) merely because its name contains an 'i' (#615).
+# These used to wipe the URL given before them and exit on the usage screen.
+run "$tmp/ord-bti" --build-top-index
+accepted "$tmp/ord-bti" "#615: --build-top-index after the URL wiped the URL list"
+run "$tmp/ord-bti-s" "-%i"
+accepted "$tmp/ord-bti-s" "#615: -%i after the URL wiped the URL list"
+run "$tmp/ord-proto" --protocol 2
+accepted "$tmp/ord-proto" "#615: --protocol after the URL wiped the URL list"
+run "$tmp/ord-proto-s" "-@i2"
+accepted "$tmp/ord-proto-s" "#615: -@i2 after the URL wiped the URL list"
+
+# %, &, @ and # take the letter after them into another option set, wherever
+# they sit in the cluster, so the i of -q%i is not the main-set -i either.
+run "$tmp/ord-qpi" "-q%i"
+accepted "$tmp/ord-qpi" "#615: -q%i after the URL wiped the URL list"
+run "$tmp/ord-qai" "-q@i"
+accepted "$tmp/ord-qai" "#615: -q@i after the URL wiped the URL list"
+
+# -%q only forces quiet mode, which nothing here can see: a run whose stdout is
+# not a tty is quiet from the start (htscoremain.c:174). Just check it crawls.
+run "$tmp/ord-iqs" "-%q"
+accepted "$tmp/ord-iqs" "#615: -%q after the URL broke the crawl"
+
+# The real -i still forces continue mode and drops the URL list, in every form:
+# a fix that merely stopped looking for 'i' would pass the checks above.
+run "$tmp/cont-s" -i
+continued "$tmp/cont-s" "#615: -i after the URL no longer forces continue mode"
+run "$tmp/cont-c" -iC2
+continued "$tmp/cont-c" "#615: -iC2 after the URL no longer forces continue mode"
+run "$tmp/cont-l" --continue
+continued "$tmp/cont-l" "#615: --continue after the URL no longer forces continue mode"
+run "$tmp/cont-u" --update
+continued "$tmp/cont-u" "#615: --update after the URL no longer forces continue mode"
+
+# ...including where another set's letter precedes it in the cluster.
+run "$tmp/cont-pq" "-%qi"
+continued "$tmp/cont-pq" "#615: -%qi after the URL no longer forces continue mode"
+run "$tmp/cont-pm" "-%Mi"
+continued "$tmp/cont-pm" "#615: -%Mi after the URL no longer forces continue mode"
+
+# Placed before the URL these always worked; they must keep working.
+run_only "$tmp/pre-bti" "-%i" "file://$tmp/index.html"
+accepted "$tmp/pre-bti" "#615: -%i before the URL broke the crawl"
+run_only "$tmp/pre-proto" "-@i2" "file://$tmp/index.html"
+accepted "$tmp/pre-proto" "#615: -@i2 before the URL broke the crawl"
+
 exit 0