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textinput: add support for wrapping the prompt

Open twpayne opened this issue 11 months ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

My application uses textinputs with long prompts. The prompts are long because they contain multiple filenames from the user that can get quite long, for example:

$ chezmoi rm ~/.config/git/config
Remove /Users/twp/.config/git/config and /Users/twp/.local/share/chezmoi/home/private_dot_config/git/config.tmpl? yes/no/all/quit

textinput only displays the prompt up to the width of the terminal, which leads to the prompt being truncated and confusing, for example, with a terminal of width 80:

$ chezmoi rm ~/.config/git/config
Remove /Users/twp/.config/git/config and /Users/twp/.local/share/chezmoi/home/pr

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like a boolean option to wrap the prompt over multiple lines, wrapping words (maybe using github.com/muesli/reflow) so you would get the following with a terminal width of 80:

$ chezmoi rm ~/.config/git/config
Remove /Users/twp/.config/git/config and /Users/twp/.local/share/chezmoi/home/
private_dot_config/git/config.tmpl? yes/no/all/quit

Describe alternatives you've considered

Forking textinput to add this functionality.

Additional context

#417 talks about multiline text, this feature request is about a multiline prompt.

I would happily submit a PR for this if you are interested.

twpayne avatar Feb 24 '24 00:02 twpayne

This all makes sense to me; thanks for the well written writeup, Tom. If this is something you'd indeed like to work on, by all means go for it.

meowgorithm avatar Feb 27 '24 22:02 meowgorithm

For what it's worth, textarea can support multiline prompts with this PR:

  • https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/pull/302

maaslalani avatar Feb 28 '24 03:02 maaslalani