Printers prefixes with same width

[kinoute]

Hello there,

I was wondering if it might possible to make all the Printers prefixes with the same width? Right now it looks like this:

If the width was the same for every kind of prefix, the alignment would look much nicer.

Thanks!

[kinoute]

BTW, it seems SpinnerPrinters don't have this problem:

[MarvinJWendt]

Hi @kinoute, the SpinnerPrinter doesn't have this issue as it doesn't have the Info printer, every other printer has the same width 😉 I'd actually also like them to have the same width, but we cannot center the Info printer (due to its text length), and we found that it looked kinda weird to have the same width on it, as the text Info would have more padding to one side than the other. Also, the user can create his own PrefixPrinters which might be longer than any other printer, so we cannot set one specific width. If a user creates a PrefixPrinter with the prefix "WEB-SERVICE" for example, that one would be longer than the other ones.

[ccremer]

I just modified the Info Prefixprinter's prefix, e.g.
pterm.Info.WithPrefix(pterm.Prefix{Text: " INFO ", Style: pterm.Info.Prefix.Style})

At least the background colors and the messages would then be aligned.

[kinoute]

@MarvinJWendt Thanks for the great explanation, I now understand the problem.

@ccremer Great tip, thanks! Do you think there is a way to force this custom Prefix every time and everywhere we call pterm.Info (instead of using WithPrefix every time) ?

[ccremer]

If I'm not mistaken, you can simply overwrite the default pterm.Info with the new printer, e.g.
pterm.Info = *pterm.Info.WithPrefix(pterm.Prefix{Text: " INFO ", Style: pterm.Info.Prefix.Style})

[kinoute]

@ccremer This works flawlessly, thank you very much. I use "INFOS" instead to correctly aligned the text with the other labels.

I didn't know we could override that easy a feature of a library over all an app. I thought I would have to add this line on every package, apparently I don't have to, one line in main is enough. Guess I have still a lot of things to learn in Go!

[ccremer]

Glad to help. pterm.Info is an exposed global variable and not a constant, so you can change it anytime.

[MarvinJWendt]

Closing due to inactivity
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