Allow Disabling Prefixes in PrefixPrinters.

[jenslauterbach]

I am currently trying to use pterm and would like to offer my users an option to output as plain text.

I'd like to use prefix printers (pterm.Info.Println("")) throughout my code, but if I want to offer plain text output, the prefix becomes a problem.

It would be great to have a way to disable prefixes completely using a "global" switch, similar to pterm.DisableColor() or pterm.DisableDebugMessages().

When the switch is used, the following behaviour would be great:

pterm.DisablePrefixes()
pterm.Info.Println("Hello World") // Output: Hello World

pterm.EnablePrefixes()
pterm.Info.Println("Hello World") // Output: [ INFO ] Hello World

[MarvinJWendt]

Hi @jenslauterbach, thanks for the feedback. Since the feature is very PrefixPrinter specific, I don't think that a global setting would fit here. But, I think a pterm.EnablePlainTextOutput() / pterm.DisbleStyling() method would make sense! This would fit your use case (probably even better) and I totally see the relevance to disable all styling (for raw text files, etc.). Thanks again for the suggestion :)

I will work on this in the next days 👍

[jenslauterbach]

Thank you very much @MarvinJWendt. Much appreciated.

[MarvinJWendt]

Hi @jenslauterbach, sorry for the delay. I am in my exam phase so I don't have much time to work on this. We might ship this feature at the end of the month.

[jenslauterbach]

@MarvinJWendt Thank you for the update. No need to explain yourself why it is taking longer. I can wait :)

I wish you the best of luck for your exams 👍

[MarvinJWendt]

Hi @jenslauterbach, I am currently implementing this.

This is the current functionallity:

Default behaviour

pterm.DisableStyling() called before

As you can see, the prefixes won't be removed completely, so that users can still get the context of a message in RawOutput mode, and better distinguish between Errors, Warnings and Infos in log files.

If you want to remove the prefixes completely, you could do this:

pterm.DisableStyling()
pterm.Debug.Prefix.Text = ""
pterm.Info.Prefix.Text = ""
pterm.Success.Prefix.Text = ""
pterm.Warning.Prefix.Text = ""
pterm.Error.Prefix.Text = ""
pterm.Fatal.Prefix.Text = ""

This would remove every prefix. The problem with that is, that it can't be toggled back without creating a backup of every PrefixPrinter beforehand.

Does this still fit your need?

PS: I will let you know, when the feature is officially released.

[MarvinJWendt]

So this is now implemented in v0.12.15, let me know if this fits your need and if you find anything else 😄

Styles can be disabled with pterm.DisableStyling()

[jenslauterbach]

@MarvinJWendt Looks like it will do what I wanted. I will try it as soon as I have some time. Thank you for implementing this new feature.