Is there any way to cut short long row entries

[oliashish]

Hello Everyone,
I have a situation where I'm trying to list the number of entries by users. But a few of them are quite long and are making the layout ugly and unfortunately, I'm unable to find the solution for the same in the docs(sorry if I missed it in the docs)

So I wanted to ask if is there a way to

1. Achieve ellipsis on the long text(entries) or
2. Some sort of column_width preferably with min and max options to help even if we resize the shell/terminal.

Please let me know if we can achieve any of the above.

If there is no direct then I'm thinking of a solution like is to create a mutable vector with a capacity of user_entries.len() and then manipulating the entry with \n (if it reaches a certain word count).

Please let me know if this is a good approach to the problem or if there is any workaround available please do let me know.
Thank you

[zhiburt]

Hi @oliashish

See if it helps?

• https://github.com/zhiburt/tabled/blob/master/tabled/examples/terminal_size2/src/main.rs
• https://github.com/zhiburt/tabled/blob/master/tabled/examples/table_width.rs
• https://docs.rs/tabled/0.14.0/tabled/settings/width/struct.Width.html

[oliashish]

Hey @zhiburt Thank you for the resource
WIll definitely look into them and update you once done.

Thanks

[oliashish]

Hey @zhiburt thank you for the solution.
From the above-given resources this one got perfect with my use-case - table.with(Modify::new(Segment::all()).with(Width::wrap(5)));

with(Modify::new(Segment::all()).with(Width::truncate(3).suffix("..."))); this one also worked but if the user want to read out the full entry then it would be a pain(I guess) to add some logic of read more/expand etc

Therefore going with the first solution.
Thank you for helping :-)