microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Improve display output
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
Improve the visual text output rendered in Terminal
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
The default line wrap in terminal is not quite as nice as I would like it to be for commands like show. Initially maybe some kind of table based layout might be nice, but true word wrap would be even nicer. I've added a snip of what I mean by table based layout.
We still need to think about what this means for other locales, and hyphenated words, but I think you might get the gist.
PS C:\Users\denelon> winget show vscode
Found Visual Studio Code [Microsoft.VisualStudioCode]
Version: 1.56.1.e713fe9b05
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
Moniker: vscode
Description: Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for bui
lding and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studi
o Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, mac
OS, and Windows.
Homepage: https://code.visualstudio.com
License: MIT
License Url: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
Installer:
Type: Inno
Download Url: https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/e713fe9b05fc24facbec8f34fb
1017133858842b/VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.56.1.exe
SHA256: 02d54f65162d74088f06c4fac95cd837d65ae9d1790e6c9404bc335a140ba490
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the winget show vscode output in a Windows Terminal and reviewing how terminal text output is currently rendered. The issue does not name files or tests; done requires an agreed table or word-wrapping design that handles locales, hyphenated words, and long URLs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100