prompt-toolkit / prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
Impossible to have different continuation prompt for hard and soft line wrap
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Description
It would be nice if get_continuation_prompt had enough information passed to it to have a different continuation prompt depending on if the line is hard wrapped or soft wrapped. As far as I can tell this is currently impossible (from the logic here, the get_continuation_prompt has no distinction between the different calls. Even if it were just passed n (for the n-th continuation prompt) I think this would be possible.
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Start in prompt_toolkit/layout/margins.py around line 237 and trace how get_continuation_prompt is called for hard- and soft-wrapped lines. Determine the information needed to distinguish those calls, then define and test an API that lets callers choose different continuation prompts for each case.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Stale
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- 35/100