I am currently migrating an old application with some weird command-line arguments.

While using Boost program_options, I try to keep some of those arguments from the old version of the application, to assure the compatibility of some user scripts.

My problem is that I couldn't find a way to add shorthand options with two or more characters.

For example, if I add:

("testOption,to", "This is just a test-option")

to the options_description, I only get -t as the shorthand for testOption.

Is there some way to use longer shorthand options?

Greetings,

Stefan Köhnen