quarto --help breaks lines wrong

[jidanni]

What would you like to do?

Give feedback or suggest an improvement

Description

$ quarto --help

We see lines being broken (good), but at the wrong places, after the line has hit the edge and wrapped.

Seen on a Chromebook.

[mcanouil]

@jidanni Please use the proper issue template.

What's the version of Quarto CLI?

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[jidanni]

$ quarto --help > help.txt
$ quarto --version
1.9.37

help.txt
Probably not related: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/788661/debian-bookworm-always-sets-columns-to-be-a-little-less-than-the-actual-termin

[jidanni]

95% workaround:

$ quarto --help|sed s/\ *$//

For starters just don't add trailing blanks. To see the difference,

for i in cat quarto
do
   echo $i=======
   $i --help|tail
done|colrm 1 80|cat -e

[cscheid]

I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You're suggesting something that needs to be fixed at the upstream. We're not going to reimplement CLI parsing entirely because of this aesthetic concern; the terminal rendering comes from Cliffy, the library we use.