Wrapping long lines #41
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Hallo @Radiergummi, Thank you for the suggestion. However, I don't plan to include Many maintainers care about package size and replaces big packages with smaller single-purpose alternatives. Moreover, the npm ecosystem is built on the principle of composability: small, focused libraries that can be combined as needed.
So while I appreciate the idea, keeping Ansis a small library remains a primary goal. |
Feature request
What is motivation or use case for adding/changing the behavior?
Breaking long lines with escape sequences in them, for example when wrapping text to fit inside table columns with a maximum width, causes rendering havoc.
The issue can be best understood like this:
When wrapped, ignoring control characters, the snippet would look like so:
And when split naively, this would lead to the individual parts containing unclosed escape sequences:
Finally, if you embed this in e.g. a table, you'll see styles "bleeding" into neighbour columns:
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if ansis included a utility similar to
chalk/wrap-ansithat allows to safely split a formatted string while preserving its formatting.Describe alternatives you've considered
Obviously one could just use
chalk/wrap-ansidirectly, but that's yet another library to include. Also, I feel like safe splitting should be part of ansis itself.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: