Open kdeldycke opened 1 year ago
Just wanted to ping @janluke on that issue, as he also maintain a Click-based extension that is also deep into help screen customization and coloring.
I've also heard rumors of upcoming big refactors regarding help screen generation, so I propose this small, un intrusive one as a small step towards the big one.
I maintain Click Extra, a drop-in replacement for Click which adds colorization of the help screen.
I am currently relying on finicky regular expressions to identify and match the extra items that are displayed at the end of each option's help. These extra items are rendered in square brackets and looks like:
[default: None]
[default: (unlimited)]
[env var: COLOR_CLI8_TIME; default: no-time]
The problem is that the generation of these extra items are deeply embedded within Click and are impossible to fetch independently.
That's why I propose a simple refactor of the
Option.get_help_record()
method, and split it in two:get_help_record()
as-is, but dedicated to help message rendering onlyI have a PR that is ready at #2517.