Completion: Full description length

[dezza]

Hi, is it possible to get full description of arguments?

For example with ls --<TAB>

Got:

--dereference                             : [-L] when showing file information for a symbolic link, show information for the file the link references rath…

Expected:

--dereference                             : [-L] when showing file information for a symbolic link, show information for the file the link references rather than for the link itself

The description is limited and cut off by ...

I tried the settings, complete_menu_style none of them did it, I have disabled menu_desc_multicolumn_width=, tried searching a bit in the code but its quite overwhelming and don't know here to look..

I understand it might be a general limit, just to avoid extremely lengthy descriptions.. Maybe it could be a setting to configure to allow multi-line descriptions and then set a line-limit or total characters.

[akinomyoga]

Thanks. Hmm, with bleopt menu_desc_multicolumn_width=, the truncation should only happen on the right edge of the terminal by design. If it is truncated in the middle of the line in the terminal, it would be a bug in the calculation of the terminal width.

• Q1: Can you confirm that the truncation happens in the middle of the line in your environment?
• Q2: What are the results of the following commands?

$ echo "$LINES $COLUMNS"
$ stty size

[dezza]

Yes it does only happen on the right side, my question is whether you can disable this and make it continue on the next line (showing full description spanning 2+ lines) :)

Side-question: also is it possible to disable the "(0: << !1016 ) `'" status message when using C-R substring search?
Sry missed: #80 found it: #101 (comment)

[akinomyoga]

Yes it does only happen on the right side, my question is whether you can disable this and make it continue on the next line (showing full description spanning 2+ lines) :)

It's not implemented currently, and I need to newly implement it. However, it's not simple to implement. To offer the TUI-like behavior ble.sh needs to calculate the layout by emulating/predicting all the text reflow of the terminal. ble.sh actually already contains a framework to calculate it, but I anyway need to design new layouting to implement the behavior you describe. I'll put it on my ToDo list, but I don't have time to implement it soon.

Side-question: also is it possible to disable the "(0: << !1016 ) `'" status message when using C-R substring search? Sry missed: #80 found it: #101 (comment)

Ah, #80 and #101 are for nsearch (non-incremental search), but C-r is isearch (incremental search). Currently, there is no option to turn off the search progress of isearch. You may overwrite a function responsible for showing the progress:

# blerc

function ble-edit/isearch/.show-status-with-progress.fib { return 0; }

[dezza]

Great project. Well done, sir! Thanks for the quick response :)