TableTest Formatter

Table extraction
Display width
- Adds the code point widths to measure a string
- Measures a code point as zero, one, or two columns
Cell value formatting
- Normalises a collection value
- Preserves a quoted value as written
Column width
- Measures each column on its own
- Widens a column to fit its widest cell
Cell padding and alignment
- Pads each cell to its column width and joins with pipes
String array layout
- Keeps a comment in the array, in place and unchanged
- Writes each entry on its own line, closing quotes aligned
Comments and blank lines
- Counts a line as a comment or a blank
- Keeps a comment or blank line in place, with its text
Indent configuration
- Reads the indent from .editorconfig, or from the caller
Indentation
- Re-indents every table line from scratch
- Starts the indent from the annotation's own line
Graceful degradation
- Returns input it cannot parse unchanged

Arrows move, / searches, ? lists the keys

Keyboard

↓ ↑: move between the rows you can see
→: open a feature, then step into it
←: close a feature, or step out to the one above
Enter: go to the page in focus
Tab: the same rows, plus everything else on the page
/: search the whole report
m: open or close the navigation drawer
Esc: leave the search box, or close the drawer
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TableTest Formatter
Display width

Display width

All 28 scenarios hold

The formatter measures alignment in terminal display columns, not in characters. These rules say how wide a value renders in a monospaced font. The Column width feature and the Cell padding and alignment feature build on them.

Adds the code point widths to measure a string
Measures a code point as zero, one, or two columns

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