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[Proposal] Add a simple way to add internal padding, for hash-displayed output
Currently if you pp a more complex object such as:
#<RBT::Cookbooks::SanitizeCookbook:0x000055e84af39ac0
@array_show_these_entries=[],
@be_verbose=true,
@commandline_arguments=["htop"],
@dataset={},
@debug=false,
@found=true,
@internal_hash=
{:make_use_of_aliases_kept_in_the_file_cookbook_aliases=>true,
:use_this_connective_token=>"-",
:wrap_result=>true,
:shall_we_display_the_md5sum=>false,
:try_to_truncate_too_long_output=>true,
:replace_plus_with_long_name=>false,
:report_how_many_programs_are_registered=>false},
It becomes quite hard to read the output. Would it be useful to add a ' ' each before the "=>" of a Hash? The other parts I don't care as much, but " => " would be more readable.
Example: @internal_hash= {:make_use_of_aliases_kept_in_the_file_cookbook_aliases=>true, :use_this_connective_token => "-", :wrap_result => true, :shall_we_display_the_md5sum => false, :try_to_truncate_too_long_output => true, :replace_plus_with_long_name => false, :report_how_many_programs_are_registered => false},
API I don't mind really. Could be:
pp obj, padding: 1
Or anything else. Should ideally be simple to type though. Or perhaps toggle PP. I did not find any documented option for this at:
https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-3.0.1/libdoc/pp/rdoc/PP.html
I understand that we can customize this already, but I was hoping this be sufficiently useful to be added in general. The name could be :padding but it could be anything else, like :internal_spacing or :spacing or anything like that.
Thanks for reading - please proceed in any way you see fit about this short proposal.