feat: setting column on spawned process

[privatenumber]

Feature request

Would like to be able to specify the column and rows for the stdout of the spawned process.

Motivation

I'm using execa to spawn a command that is printing text that is wrapped. It doesn't wrap when I run it directly or if I set stdio: 'inherit'.

[sindresorhus]

This is not possible. There's no column / row on the spawned process. You need a PTY for that, like https://github.com/microsoft/node-pty

See this Node.js issue: nodejs/node#31409

I agree, it would be very useful.

[privatenumber]

Ah I see. That's a shame...

Thanks for those links. Upvoted the Node.js issue—let me know if there's anything else I can do to help push for it.

I was experimenting and I saw I could pass in new tty.WriteStream(1) as the stdout and it would work fine but print to the actual stdout (so basically I was just inheriting the stdout).

I'm not very good with streams/tty, so excuse me if I'm just completely off, but I was wondering if it's possible to pass in a fake tty write stream that just collects the output. Probably not though if it's just a wrapper for the internal tty binding.

[sindresorhus]

but I was wondering if it's possible to pass in a fake tty write stream that just collects the output. Probably not though if it's just a wrapper for the internal tty binding.

Not as far as I know, but it's been years since I tried to do something like that.

Maybe try asking on Stack Overflow? The answer (if any) would benefit a lot of Node.js people.

[ehmicky]

Closing as the issue is not related to Node.js.