hwylterm/todo.md

hwylterm todo's

• add cligen adapters to add colors with bbansi
  • add integration test check cligen
• add generic help generator to accompany parseopt

improvements

• addJoinStyle(); works like join except wraps each argument in a style
• consider reducing illwill surface to only relevant IO (input) features
• revamp spinner api (new threads?)
• add Bbstring indexing operations strutils, that are span aware
• console object with customizable options to apply formatting

cli generator

• ShowHelp setting should occur after "a hwylCliError" could be by default (see program --help for more info.)
• add support for types(metavars)/defaults/required in help output
• add support for E/env param for flags to add custom env_var (in help (env: OPTIONAL_ENV_VAR)) inject this code in the same place as the "default" setting
• generalize parser error handling
• consider default (or opt in) "help subcmd"

  app help (show all help?) app help same as app --help

features

• make a basic choose one from list widget
• tables/boxes?
• confirmation proc
• basic progress bar
• support for 256 and truecolors
  • support for rgb colors
  • modify 256 colors w/parser changes to be "[color(9)]red" instead of [9]red
  • improve color detection ref

testing

• make proper test suite for cli generator
• investigate cap10 as a means of scripting the testing