From 3b72e31e5daa211127d09532e013750684c9f306 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:49:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Console: add --version option (#175)

This option prints application name and its version. Such an output
can be used to automatically generate a man page using the help2man
utility.
---
 src/Console/AppConsole.vala | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Console/AppConsole.vala b/src/Console/AppConsole.vala
index e4c726c..0f5c697 100644
--- a/src/Console/AppConsole.vala
+++ b/src/Console/AppConsole.vala
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ public class AppConsole : GLib.Object {
 				case "-h":
 					stdout.printf (help_message ());
 					return 0;
+
+				case "--version":
+					stdout.printf (version_message ());
+					return 0;
+
 			}
 		}
 		else if (args.length == 1){
@@ -334,6 +339,11 @@ public class AppConsole : GLib.Object {
 		}
 	}
 
+	private static string version_message (){
+		string msg = "%s %s\n".printf( AppName, AppVersion);
+		return msg;
+	}
+
 	private static string help_message (){
 		
 		string msg = "\n%s v%s by Tony George (%s)\n".printf(