Cli: Help text should automatically wrap based on term width
When we got a long text description in Usage, it should automatically wrap and make a nice display.
A bit like what "man" does, it automatically rewraps the text so it fits nicely in the current terminal session.
nikkolasg
All 16 comments
+1
cvle
on 13 Nov 2015
+1
syossan27
on 6 Jan 2016
+1
immesys
on 5 Sep 2016
and should be able to handle \n in the various command and flag descriptions, indenting appropriately.
hickeng
on 10 Oct 2016
...or simply wrap at 80 characters, which is considered a common default and also adheres to general readability best-practises.
JensRantil
on 7 Aug 2017
This feature is now in review - @urfave/cli please add a 馃憤 or 馃憥 to the top post if you're in favor or against this feature being added!
lynncyrin
on 10 Sep 2019
@lynncyrin we should move forward with this one. Wrapping based on the term width seems a sane default. :)
saschagrunert
on 16 Jan 2020
馃憖 this is now ready for anyone to work on!
lynncyrin
on 16 Jan 2020
...or simply wrap at 80 characters, which is considered a common default and also adheres to general readability best-practises.
I agree that an 80 character limit would be easier to read. It would also be easier to implement. That said, I don't want to bikeshed this issue. Whoever actually does the work to implement this will have my vote.
xordspar0
on 9 Mar 2020
I will try to make #1119 implement a basic version of this feature.
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on 6 May 2020
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