Is there a "no wrap" option in AnsiConsole?

[nils-a]

While trying to fix spectre1000, I came across one small "problem":

I want to write some text to the console that can be easily copied to the clipboard. Hence, I don't really care for "readability" but more for "accuracy".

So, given the following code:

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var x = "some short words and then aReallyLongTextThatWillBeMoreThanTheLineLengthAndMightBeWrappedInSpectreConsoleWhichIsNotReallyWhatIWant";
            AnsiConsole.WriteLine(" -- ");
            AnsiConsole.WriteLine(x);
            AnsiConsole.WriteLine(" -- ");
            Console.WriteLine(x);
            AnsiConsole.WriteLine(" -- ");
        }

the output is

 --
some short words and then                                                                                              
aReallyLongTextThatWillBeMoreThanTheLineLengthAndMightBeWrappedInSpectreConsoleWhichIsNotReallyWhatIWant
 --
some short words and then aReallyLongTextThatWillBeMoreThanTheLineLengthAndMightBeWrappedInSpectreConsoleWhichIsNotReall
yWhatIWant
 --

So, my question is: Is there a way to disable the word-breaking in AnsiConsole?

[patriksvensson]

Alas, there is no way of disbling this currently since it would break rendering. Let me think about it for a little while and I'll come back to you.

[vermiculus]

Thanks for your work on this project; it's incredibly valuable.

Our use case is echoing commands that we're running on behalf of the user, so line breaks are 'not ideal' – is this something that has been getting some noodle-time on how it might be addressed or worked-around?

Even if there was some sort of AnsiConsole primitive we could use to know if the terminal supports colors, we could branch off that and use System.Color for our purposes.

[scottbilas]

Here's a workaround I am using:

readonly struct SkipSpectreWordWrap : IDisposable
{
    readonly int _oldWidth = AnsiConsole.Profile.Width;

    public SkipSpectreWordWrap() => AnsiConsole.Profile.Width = 100000;
    public void Dispose() => AnsiConsole.Profile.Width = _oldWidth;
}

using var _ = new SkipSpectreWordWrap();
AnsiConsole.Markup(...);

Looking through the code, it seems that what we'd need is to set RenderOptions.SingleLine=true, but I don't see a way to do that, or an easy way to plumb it through. Perhaps it would be best done with a new markup token like [option:+singleline]stuffthatwillnotbewrapped[/].

[patriksvensson]

@scottbilas The markup suggestion is an excellent idea!