Prompt gets cut off if too long

[alichtman]

I looked through the documentation and didn't see a workaround for this. Do you have any suggestions?

[magmax]

I'm afraid there isn't. Maybe it should manage two lines, but currently it cannot.

[alichtman]

I wrote a quick workaround for it. I'm also using colorama and this works:

def prompt_yes_no(top_line="", bottom_line="",):
	"""Print question (split into top and bottom lines) and return True or False 
depending on user selection from list. bottom_line should be used for one liners, 
with an empty top_line. Otherwise, bottom_line is the second line you want printed."""

	if top_line is not "":
		print(Fore.GREEN + Style.BRIGHT + " " + top_line)

	questions = [ inquirer.List('choice',
	                            message=Fore.GREEN + Style.BRIGHT + bottom_line + Fore.YELLOW,
	                            choices=[' Yes', ' No'],
	                            ),
	]

	answers = inquirer.prompt(questions)

	if answers.get('choice').strip() == 'Yes':
		return True
	else:
		return False

Feel free to add this to the documentation. I think many people (myself included) would have found this tip helpful.

[lhriley]

@magmax

This is causing me problems as well. I believe that the textwrap module might be a viable solution: https://docs.python.org/3/library/textwrap.html

I would put up a PR, but I read through the code briefly and I'm just not sure where best to test it as a general solution. Any insight into the code base would be helpful. Thanks!

[rixx]

Notably, this bug even occurs when you wrap the text yourself, because the code doesn't include newlines in the text length check.

[alichtman]

Notably, this bug even occurs when you wrap the text yourself, because the code doesn't include newlines in the text length check.

Correct, that's why my workaround looks so jank. 🤷

[lminer]

This is pretty key functionality. Putting in a vote that this would be a great new feature.

[trivedip]

Wish this was fixed, this seems like pretty common issue; just registering my vote.