Output breaks on narrow terminals

[marcusirgens]

Meta:

CircleCI CLI Version:

0.1.22100+a77d125 (homebrew)

Operating System:

macOS 12.5.1 (21G83)

CircleCI CLI Diagnostic:

n/a

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Current behavior:

The output of the circleci command appears to be broken in my terminal whenever the window width is below 122 characters, due to the border effect that has been added:

Expected behavior:

The border effect shouldn't break the output. There's only 1 line that "overflows" inside of the box area between 85 and 121 character output width (the --host help text). I would rather have that one line overflowing than every single line on the screen.

Possible solutions:

• Don't draw this border at all.
• Disable the border if the window size is smaller than the bounding box size
• Allow me to disable the border

I don't want to spark a debate around "what is a reasonable window size", but I'm sure most developers don't always run their terminals in full-width or full-screen modes, and breaking output for aesthetic purposes seems like a tradeoff with more negative sides than positive ones?

When did this begin / Was this previously working?:

This seems to have been introduced in #782.

Additional Information:

[adamdmharvey]

Whole heartedly agree with this one: the outline makes the CLI extremely hard to use. (Have a MacBook Pro 15" with no external monitor, so not a massively large dev space and most of my console windows aren't full screen.) I basically no longer use the --help locally; exclusively try to read the docs on the repo for how to use the CLI.

[wyardley]

#862 didn't have "Fixes #797", so this didn't get closed, but should be resolved once #886 goes out and is released.

Thanks @threepipes for making a fix for this!

[elliotforbes]

Closing this as it should have gone live! Thanks again for the contribution @threepipes 🙌🏼