Feature request: Custom field widths and wrapping of histdb output about zsh-histdb

[diamond-lizard]

I'm actually reconsidering this feature request, because its implementation will probably unecessarily bloat-up histdb.

As long as histdb can output its fields with clearly distinguishable separators (which it already does, if you take out the pipe to the "column" command), then it can probably be left up to the user to do further formatting of that output.

So I think it might make more sense to just let the field separator be user-configurable through an option, and have another option to feed the output through the "column" command or not. That would allow histdb to stay lean and yet give the user access to the raw field values to wrap themselves, if they want.

What do you think?

[larkery]

Yeah, this is slightly poor UI, but I get the column-ing for free by using column. I don't want to write a width-aware version of column in zsh. Usually if something wraps and I don't want it to, I just pipe it to less or most or similar and scroll right.

I think it would be nice if someone produced a better version of column that could do this job right though.

I'll add some options for separator / column stuff.