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don't include ANSI escape codes in measureColumns - tui-lib - Pure Node.js library for making visual command-line programs (ala vim, ncdu)
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authorFlorrie <towerofnix@gmail.com>2020-07-15 22:08:34 -0300
committerFlorrie <towerofnix@gmail.com>2020-07-15 22:08:34 -0300
commit3bd328e68894a7819aa26e2325d7984eaa3959e0 (patch)
tree43202cd7a0cbaa3d94a2116622f951a7a37b820a /util
parentbe0919ac31b1048248941ed0c290c03824732297 (diff)
don't include ANSI escape codes in measureColumns
This allows pretty much any code based around measureColumns
(e.g. buttons, labels, word-wrapping code) to handle ANSI-formatted
text without any miscalculated measurements.
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
-rw-r--r--util/ansi.js7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/ansi.js b/util/ansi.js
index ac511ed..f921349 100644
--- a/util/ansi.js
+++ b/util/ansi.js
@@ -153,7 +153,12 @@ const ansi = {
   },
 
   measureColumns(text) {
-    // Returns the number of columns the given text takes.
+    // Returns the number of columns the given text takes. Accounts for escape
+    // codes (by not including them in the returned width).
+
+    if (text.includes(ESC)) {
+      text = text.replace(new RegExp(ESC + '\\[\\??[0-9]*.', 'g'), '')
+    }
 
     return wcwidth(text)
   },