Allow templates to change the error message strings

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Issue by filipelbc
Saturday Oct 31, 2020 at 21:07 GMT
Originally opened as clap-rs/clap#2196

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Describe your use case

I prefer printing ERROR: ... instead of error: ..., and to make the background red, instead of the foreground.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow the user to set the "error: " string, which is currently hard-coded, see https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/blob/97b4fb639f846c5b910c318dd6c6f7d6da779d7d/src/parse/errors.rs#L401

Allow the user to change the colors, currently hard-coded, see https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/blob/97b4fb639f846c5b910c318dd6c6f7d6da779d7d/src/output/fmt.rs#L53

You could create a StyleSetting struct and a mechanism similar to AppSettings.

struct StyleSetting {
    string: &str,
    style: termcolor::ColorSpec,
}

enum StylePoint {
    ErrorStart,
    UsageStart,
    ...
}

let my_error_style = StyleSetting::new("ERROR: ", my_error_color_spec);

App::new("Foo")
    ...
    .style_setting(ErrorStart, my_error_style)
    ...

Additional context

Similar to clap-rs/clap#2035, but instead of allowing usage of Clap's error formatting, allow the user to customize Clap's messages and style to fit his preferences.

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Comment by pksunkara
Saturday Oct 31, 2020 at 21:10 GMT

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Note: Same as #1433 but this issue needs error message template support.

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Comment by pksunkara
Friday Nov 06, 2020 at 20:09 GMT

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Might also be related to #1734