masukomi / masukomi/Prettier-Table

don't count invisible characters when calculating column width

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Since Nov 6, 2022.

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Description

If you include ANSI escape sequences to format your text (bold, colored, etc.) then the code includes those escape characters in the calculation of how wide the text is, but when it's actually displayed those characters are not providing any width, so the columns are all misaligned.

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