prompt-toolkit / prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
Multiline prompts?
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Description
I am trying to use a Completion where the display_meta is very long (like help text). But I can't get it to wrap / render new lines (\r nor \n).
newlines render as ^J. I also tried using <br/> when parsing as HTML but that also doesn't work.
is this supported/ easy to support?
Example image attached
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Research direction
Start by tracing how Completion.display_meta is rendered in the command-line interface and reproduce the reported behavior with the linked screenshot's multiline help-text example. Done means multiline display_meta content renders with wrapping or newlines instead of literal ^J, with the supported behavior covered by an appropriate test.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100