How to Create a Positional Argument that is also Required?

[kyleerhabor]

Hey! I'd like to require the first argument of my command (query) to be present and global across all subcommands. The usage syntax looks like amincio [query] [SUBCOMMAND] where [query] is the required user input, and each subcommand will require [query] as well. I'm using a YAML file, so it looks like this:

name: Amincio
author: LiteLT (https://github.com/LiteLT)
args:
    - query:
        help: Search for something.
        global: true
        required: true
subcommands:
    - anime:
    - manga:
    - character:

Sadly, when I try to run this, the main thread panics as global arguments are not allowed to be required. To put this in perspective:

Command	Response
amincio "the query"	Good!
amincio "the subcommand" "the query"	Good!
amincio	Bad! Missing query argument.
amincio "the subcommand"	Bad! Missing query argument.

I'd like to follow DRY (don't repeat yourself) by not repeating query across every subcommand, but it doesn't look like I'm able to do this. Is there a way to work around this?

[pksunkara]

Can you please create an issue out of this?

[kyleerhabor]

Sure, in a bit.

[kyleerhabor]

Someone else has already opened an issue about this topic (#1546), so I won't bother making a duplicate.