fix(cli): improve terminal help layout - #1304
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds terminal-width wrapping across Rust and Go help renderers. It updates inline and block entry layout, annotations, admonitions, deprecation notes, list handling, preformatted text, Tera filters, models, templates, and conformance tests. ChangesTerminal help layout
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR improves terminal help layout, but nested lists can still lose their indentation and hidden environment metadata may appear in generated help. This can make documentation misleading or expose information intended to be suppressed, so the change is not fully merge-ready without owner follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HelpRenderer
participant Layout
participant Templates
participant Terminal
HelpRenderer->>Layout: calculate widths and entry layout
Layout->>HelpRenderer: return wrapped help and annotations
HelpRenderer->>Templates: provide rendered fields and terminal width
Templates->>Terminal: render formatted help output
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In `@argv/src/help.rs`:
- Around line 2803-2809: Update command_deprecation to wrap command deprecation
labels with write_wrapped_indented, accepting and using the page width alongside
the existing indentation. Update all callers in short, long, and flattened help
generation to pass term_width, while leaving flag_notes behavior unchanged.
In `@go/argv/page_long.go`:
- Around line 232-235: Update the Rust flat_commands_long rendering path to wrap
the selected long_about/about description with write_wrapped_indented(...,
width, 0), matching the Go writeWrapped behavior while preserving the existing
fallback and trimming logic.
In `@go/argv/page.go`:
- Around line 327-331: Update groupsSection so Arguments and Flags section
introductions use writeWrapped with the current section and indentation level 2
instead of sending Heading.Help directly to writeIndented. Preserve existing
handling for other section content and headings.
In `@lib/src/docs/cli/templates/spec_template_long.tera`:
- Around line 248-267: Update the flattened long-help metadata rendering after
the argument blocks in the spec template: replace raw possible-values,
environment metadata, and default outputs in both affected loops with
terminal_annotation calls using indent=" " and width=terminal_width, matching
the reference renderer’s wrapping behavior.
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argv/src/help.rs (1)
2624-2625: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve nested-list indentation in both wrapping primitives.
Both implementations trim the indentation before detecting list markers. Nested bullets become top-level bullets after wrapping.
argv/src/help.rs#L2624-L2625: preserve indentation beforelist_prefixand include it in continuation indentation.go/argv/page_long.go#L458-L460: preserve indentation beforelistPrefixand include it in continuation indentation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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98-100: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winHonor
hide_envfor choices-environment annotations.These branches check
hide_possible_valuesbut nothide_env. When environment metadata is hidden, the template still emits[choices env: ...]. Add thehide_envcondition in the regular and flattened argument and flag paths.Also applies to: 159-160, 273-274, 317-318
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In `@lib/src/docs/cli/templates/spec_template_long.tera`:
- Line 245: Update the description rendering expression in the spec template to
use trailing-only whitespace trimming instead of trim before terminal_wrap,
preserving leading indentation in preformatted flattened descriptions and
matching the behavior used by the other renderers.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@argv/src/help.rs`:
- Around line 2624-2625: Update the wrapping logic around list_prefix in
argv/src/help.rs lines 2624-2625 and listPrefix in go/argv/page_long.go lines
458-460 to retain leading indentation before detecting list markers, and include
that indentation in continuation-line indentation so nested bullets remain
nested in both implementations.
In `@lib/src/docs/cli/templates/spec_template_long.tera`:
- Around line 98-100: Update the choices-environment annotation guards in the
regular and flattened argument and flag paths to require hide_env to be disabled
in addition to the existing hide_possible_values and choices.env checks. Ensure
[choices env: ...] is omitted whenever environment metadata is hidden, including
the branches around terminal_annotation.
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Addressed the outside-diff nested-list finding in f4bf1d0 across all three wrapping primitives, with Rust and Go regression coverage. I did not change the This comment was generated by Codex. |
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Summary
Oxc comparison
Validated against oxc-project/oxc#26027 with local Cargo patches for usage-rs, usage-argv, usage-derive, and usage-lib.
Before:
After:
Multiline config/debug help now opens beside the option, wraps paragraphs and bullets to 80 columns, preserves explicit blank lines and example commands, and wraps possible-value annotations. The regenerated oxfmt and oxlint terminal snapshot tests pass.
Validation
Performance
Accepted presentation-path cost:
The startup/help result is 0.23 percentage points over the 1% gate. This is documented rather than weakening the gate; the added work is the requested terminal wrapping and layout behavior.
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Medium Risk
Wide-reaching presentation changes to help output across Rust, Go, and templates; low functional risk but high visibility for any CLI relying on exact help formatting or golden tests.
Overview
Terminal help now wraps to the configured width across short/long pages, flattened views, section intros, deprecation lines, env/default annotations, and labelled Notes/Warnings—instead of printing raw prose that runs past the terminal edge (especially on
-h).Hybrid column layout: entries with spellings wider than the shared usage column can keep help on the same row when at least 30 columns remain (
MIN_INLINE_HELP_WIDTH); otherwise prose stacks under the normal description column (not always a fixed 4-space block).entry/Column::can_inlineandwrap_atseparate first-line vs continuation widths; multiline author text is wrapped rather than forcing block-only layout.Smarter
wrap: bullet/numbered lists get hanging indents; lines starting with 4 spaces or tabs stay preformatted; blank lines in wrapped output are preserved.Parity across renderers: the same behavior is implemented in
argvhelp, Gopage/page_long, and the Tera-based reference (terminal_wrap,terminal_label,terminal_annotation,terminal_deprecationfilters; pre-renderedhelp_renderedon groups). Layout work moves out of format-neutralSpecCommand::frominto render-timelay_out_*.Conformance and snapshot tests (including oxc-shaped fixtures) assert ≤80-column lines, inline flags where room allows, and matching output between
usage-argvandusage-lib.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit f4bf1d0. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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