prompt-toolkit / prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
multi-line support for Completion.display_meta
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Description
It will be highly useful when implementing REPL shows help text sorts.
Like here, we can show the docstring of the function. Is it possible to implement such ?
currently putting new lines look like this
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Research direction
Start at Completion.display_meta and trace how the REPL renders completion metadata. Check how embedded newlines are currently handled, then define the display behavior for multi-line help text and verify it against the examples in the issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100