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Support specifying trailing indents for `div` columns

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the div function and reading how it formats each column. Review the existing column behavior before deciding how the proposed multilineIndents option should be represented, then verify that first-line and subsequent-line indentation match the issue's definitions.

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Description

Support for this would be required to implement https://github.com/yargs/yargs/issues/1640.

The idea is to add support for trailing indents to the div function.

One possible API would be supporting an option multilineIndents for each column passed to div. That option would take an array of two numbers [leadingIndent, trailingIndent] with these meanings:

  • leadingIndent (number): how many spaces to add to the start of the first line in that column
  • trailingIndent (number): how many spaces to add to the start of each line after the first
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