Whitespaces are being trimmed

[Kinrany]

Currently it's almost impossible to use something like inspect.lua to inspect tables because there's no indentation. Probably trimmed when the text is being converted to HTML.

[egordorichev]

You can use <pre></pre> tag. It doen't ignore spaces.

[Kinrany]

Yeah, but that would require

1. output parsed as HTML, which is not always convenient
2. extra code
3. lovebird-specific print code if I don't want tags to show up in regular console

[rxi]

To expand on @egordorichev 's suggestion, you can paste the following into your code after you require() lovebird. This will automatically wrap multi-line prints in <pre></pre> and html-escape them:

lovebird.allowhtml = true
local oldprint = lovebird.print

lovebird.print = function(...)
  local t = {}
  for i = 1, select("#", ...) do
    table.insert(t, tostring(select(i, ...)))
  end
  local str = table.concat(t, " ")
  if str:find("\n") then
    oldprint("<pre>" .. lovebird.htmlescape(str) .. "</pre>")
  else
    oldprint( (lovebird.htmlescape(str)) )
  end
end

[Kinrany]

Much better, thanks!

You could also save the old lovebird.print as lovebird.printhtml, this way it's possible to use both HTML and text output.