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AlecAivazis / survey

A golang library for building interactive and accessible prompts with full support for windows and posix terminals.
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feature request: survey.Select.FilterMessage: allow updating the filter tool tip? #198

Closed turtleDev closed 5 years ago

turtleDev commented 5 years ago

Hi !

I'm using survey for tooling at my company and some of the users seem to completely miss the filter functionality of survey.Select. I was hoping to update the tooltip on the right that says [arrow to move, type to filter] to something else.

I thought survey.select.FilterMessage would do just that, but instead it just shows up next to the survey.Message.

Thanks!

P.S. I'd love to help

AlecAivazis commented 5 years ago

Hey @turtleDev!

I'm sorry that your user's are missing out on the filters - that's not good! There have been a few issues lately where people have said the tooltip messaging wasn't clear so I suspect your user's experience is common. I'd like to settle on something that makes it clear for all users. Do you have any ideas on specific text?

turtleDev commented 5 years ago

@AlecAivazis I actually think that the text is adequate. I just want the ability to be able to change it via configuration for a survey.Select. I know it contradicts what I said, but I think I may be able to experiment with a few different tooltips until I can find something that will help the user better understand the tools that they're using.

AlecAivazis commented 5 years ago

I don't think it's a good idea to allow that level of fine customization on the prompt. One of the design goals for survey is to provide as small of an API as possible since removing fields is much harder than adding them.

I think your best option is to fork survey and experiment with the message. If you feel like you have something better and want to contribute it back, that would be awesome!