useless : after task name in task list

[daroga0002]

When using a task list command output is always show in format:

issue which I see here is that : after task name seems be useless for me as there is constant tabulation between task name and task description.

I am pointing this as in cases where users are using terminals allowing copy/paste and automatic highlighting it is little problematic. In my case I am using Hyper.is terminal and I have copyOnSelect option so from my productivity point of view when I need some command/argument to copy I just double click on it and if highlighted automatically, then I just paste using cmd + v shortcut but how automatic selecting is working I always paste also : which I must trim from command.

For me personally : after task name doesn't have useful usage so maybe you will consider proposal of removing it.

I am adding here a little movie to present this behaviour:

issue.mov

I think it is quite easy change here:

task/help.go

Line 30 in a664a26

e.Logger.FOutf(w, logger.Default, ": \t%s", task.Desc)

if you decide and agree to remove it I should be able to open a PR for it.

[pd93]

I've done a little bit of digging on this one.

Relevant code in Hyper.js:
https://github.com/vercel/hyper/blob/084d5f3551642740194f72c8b6eb17fe78591edf/lib/components/term.tsx#L278-L280

This is happening because : is not included in the list of word separator characters in xterm which Hyper.js depends on. See this related issue in xterm in which ,, : and ; were added as word separators, but they were later removed in xtermjs/xterm.js#2665 as it caused issues with URLs and Windows paths.

Another related issue in Hyper.js. Not sure why this one was closed.

Based on the fact that popular terinals have decided to omit these characters as word separators, this seems like a reasonable request. Although its worth noting that I can't seem to replicate this in VSCode's terminal currently which will happily highlight a URL containing ://, but not the : at the end of a Task name. Not sure what's going on there.

-- Apologies, many edits. Originally misunderstood the problem --

[daroga0002]

thank you for your detailed input. So what will be conclusion on this proposal?

[daroga0002]

any news?