Provide automatic display options that consider terminal width, etc.
olson-sean-k opened this issue · comments
difft
provides several --display
modes that configure how output is formatted and written to stdout
. As of version 0.57.0
, these essentially boil down to presenting diffs in either one or two columns, typically requiring less or more horizontal space, respectively. Terminal width can vary a lot in different environments though (terminal sessions, multiplexor windows, etc.), and sometimes the desired --display
mode isn't ideal at a particular width. I think providing automatic display modes that can choose between modes based on terminal width (or even other variables) would be great.
I think a straightforward approach to this may be to introduce an auto
option for --display
and accompanying options to specify the narrow vs. wide width threshold, the narrow display mode, and the wide display mode (e.g., --display-auto-width
, --display-auto-narrow
, and --display-auto-wide
or some such). This could of course be more sophisticated though and, for example, consider the maximum width of the text too. Features like that may also make configuration a bit unwieldy for command line arguments.
Thanks for taking a look and for difft
. 😄 Thoughts?