- * <example id="gapplication-example-cmdline"><title>Handling commandline arguments with GApplication</title>
- * <para>
- * A simple example where the commandline is completely handled
- * in the #GApplication::command-line handler. The launching instance exits
- * once the signal handler in the primary instance has returned, and the
- * return value of the signal handler becomes the exit status of the launching
+ * Normally, the commandline is completely handled in the
+ * #GApplication::command-line handler. The launching instance exits
+ * once the signal handler in the primary instance has returned, and
+ * the return value of the signal handler becomes the exit status
+ * of the launching instance.
+ * |[<!-- language="C" -->
+ * static int
+ * command_line (GApplication *application,
+ * GApplicationCommandLine *cmdline)
+ * {
+ * gchar **argv;
+ * gint argc;
+ * gint i;
+ *
+ * argv = g_application_command_line_get_arguments (cmdline, &argc);
+ *
+ * g_application_command_line_print (cmdline,
+ * "This text is written back\n"
+ * "to stdout of the caller\n");
+ *
+ * for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+ * g_print ("argument %d: %s\n", i, argv[i]);
+ *
+ * g_strfreev (argv);
+ *
+ * return 0;
+ * }
+ * ]|
+ * The complete example can be found here:
+ * [gapplication-example-cmdline.c](https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/gio/tests/gapplication-example-cmdline.c)
+ *
+ * In more complicated cases, the handling of the comandline can be
+ * split between the launcher and the primary instance.
+ * |[<!-- language="C" -->
+ * static gboolean
+ * test_local_cmdline (GApplication *application,
+ * gchar ***arguments,
+ * gint *exit_status)
+ * {
+ * gint i, j;
+ * gchar **argv;
+ *
+ * argv = *arguments;
+ *
+ * i = 1;
+ * while (argv[i])
+ * {
+ * if (g_str_has_prefix (argv[i], "--local-"))
+ * {
+ * g_print ("handling argument %s locally\n", argv[i]);
+ * g_free (argv[i]);
+ * for (j = i; argv[j]; j++)
+ * argv[j] = argv[j + 1];
+ * }
+ * else
+ * {
+ * g_print ("not handling argument %s locally\n", argv[i]);
+ * i++;
+ * }
+ * }
+ *
+ * *exit_status = 0;
+ *
+ * return FALSE;
+ * }
+ *
+ * static void
+ * test_application_class_init (TestApplicationClass *class)
+ * {
+ * G_APPLICATION_CLASS (class)->local_command_line = test_local_cmdline;
+ *
+ * ...
+ * }
+ * ]|
+ * In this example of split commandline handling, options that start
+ * with `--local-` are handled locally, all other options are passed
+ * to the #GApplication::command-line handler which runs in the primary