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Changelog
This file lists the most important changes made in each release of
textwrap
.
Version 0.15.2 (2022-10-24)
This release is identical to 0.15.0 and is only there to give people a way to install crates which depend on the yanked 0.15.1 release. See #484 for details.
Version 0.15.0 (2022-02-27)
This is a major feature release with two main changes:
-
#421: Use
f64
instead ofusize
for fragment widths.This fixes problems with overflows in the internal computations of
wrap_optimal_fit
when fragments (words) or line lenghts had extreme values, such asusize::MAX
. -
#438: Simplify
Options
by removing generic type parameters.This change removes the new generic parameters introduced in version 0.14, as well as the original
WrapSplitter
parameter which has been present since very early versions.The result is a simplification of function and struct signatures across the board. So what used to be
let options: Options< wrap_algorithms::FirstFit, word_separators::AsciiSpace, word_splitters::HyphenSplitter, > = Options::new(80);
if types are fully written out, is now simply
let options: Options<'_> = Options::new(80);
The anonymous lifetime represent the lifetime of the
initial_indent
andsubsequent_indent
strings. The change is nearly performance neutral (a 1-2% regression).
Smaller improvements and changes:
- #404: Make documentation for short last-line penalty more precise.
- #405: Cleanup and
simplify
Options
docstring. - #411: Default to
OptimalFit
in interactive example. - #415: Add demo program to help compute binary sizes.
- #423: Add fuzz tests with fully arbitrary fragments.
- #424: Change
wrap_optimal_fit
penalties to non-negative numbers. - #430: Add
debug-words
example. - #432: Use precise dependency versions in Cargo.toml.
Version 0.14.2 (2021-06-27)
The 0.14.1 release included more changes than intended and has been yanked. The change intended for 0.14.1 is now included in 0.14.2.
Version 0.14.1 (2021-06-26)
This release fixes a panic reported by @Makoto, thanks!
- #391: Fix panic in
find_words
due to string access outside of a character boundary.
Version 0.14.0 (2021-06-05)
This is a major feature release which makes Textwrap more configurable
and flexible. The high-level API of textwrap::wrap
and
textwrap::fill
remains unchanged, but low-level structs have moved
around.
The biggest change is the introduction of new generic type parameters
to the Options
struct. These parameters lets you statically
configure the wrapping algorithm, the word separator, and the word
splitter. If you previously spelled out the full type for Options
,
you now need to take the extra type parameters into account. This
means that
let options: Options<HyphenSplitter> = Options::new(80);
changes to
let options: Options<
wrap_algorithms::FirstFit,
word_separators::AsciiSpace,
word_splitters::HyphenSplitter,
> = Options::new(80);
This is quite a mouthful, so we suggest using type inferrence where
possible. You won’t see any chance if you call wrap
directly with a
width or with an Options
value constructed on the fly. Please open
an issue if this causes problems for you!
New WordSeparator
Trait
-
#332: Add
WordSeparator
trait to allow customizing how words are found in a line of text. Until now, Textwrap would always assume that words are separated by ASCII space characters. You can now customize this as needed. -
#313: Add support for using the Unicode line breaking algorithm to find words. This is done by adding a second implementation of the new
WordSeparator
trait. The implementation uses the unicode-linebreak crate, which is a new optional dependency.With this, Textwrap can be used with East-Asian languages such as Chinese or Japanese where there are no spaces between words. Breaking a long sequence of emojis is another example where line breaks might be wanted even if there are no whitespace to be found. Feedback would be appreciated for this feature.
Indent
-
#353: Trim trailing whitespace from
prefix
inindent
.Before, empty lines would get no prefix added. Now, empty lines have a trimmed prefix added. This little trick makes
indent
much more useful since you can now safely indent with"# "
without creating trailing whitespace in the output due to the trailing whitespace in your prefix. -
#354: Make
indent
about 20% faster by preallocating the output string.
Documentation
- #308: Document handling of leading and trailing whitespace when wrapping text.
WebAssembly Demo
- #310: Thanks to WebAssembly, you can now try out Textwrap directly in your browser. Please try it out: https://mgeisler.github.io/textwrap/.
New Generic Parameters
-
#331: Remove outer boxing from
Options
. -
#357: Replace
core::WrapAlgorithm
enum with awrap_algorithms::WrapAlgorithm
trait. This allows for arbitrary wrapping algorithms to be plugged into the library. -
#358: Switch wrapping functions to use a slice for
line_widths
. -
#368: Move
WordSeparator
andWordSplitter
traits to separate modules. Before, Textwrap had several top-level structs such asNoHyphenation
andHyphenSplitter
. These implementations ofWordSplitter
now lives in a dedicatedword_splitters
module. Similarly, we have a newword_separators
module for implementations ofWordSeparator
. -
#369: Rename
Options::splitter
toOptions::word_splitter
for consistency with the other fields backed by traits.
Version 0.13.4 (2021-02-23)
This release removes println!
statements which was left behind in
unfill
by mistake.
- #296: Improve house building example with more comments.
- #297: Remove debug
prints in the new
unfill
function.
Version 0.13.3 (2021-02-20)
This release contains a bugfix for indent
and improved handling of
emojis. We’ve also added a new function for formatting text in columns
and functions for reformatting already wrapped text.
- #276: Extend
core::display_width
to handle emojis when the unicode-width Cargo feature is disabled. - #279: Make
indent
preserve existing newlines in the input string. Before,indent("foo", "")
would return"foo\n"
by mistake. It now returns"foo"
instead. - #281: Ensure all
Options
fields have examples. - #282: Add a
wrap_columns
function. - #294: Add new
unfill
andrefill
functions.
Version 0.13.2 (2020-12-30)
This release primarily makes all dependencies optional. This makes it possible to slim down textwrap as needed.
- #254:
impl WordSplitter
forBox<T> where T: WordSplitter
. - #255: Use command line arguments as initial text in interactive example.
- #256: Introduce
fuzz tests for
wrap_optimal_fit
andwrap_first_fit
. - #260: Make the unicode-width dependency optional.
- #261: Make the smawk dependency optional.
Version 0.13.1 (2020-12-10)
This is a bugfix release which fixes a regression in 0.13.0. The bug meant that colored text was wrapped incorrectly.
- #245: Support deleting a word with Ctrl-Backspace in the interactive demo.
- #246: Show build type (debug/release) in interactive demo.
- #249: Correctly compute width while skipping over ANSI escape sequences.
Version 0.13.0 (2020-12-05)
This is a major release which rewrites the core logic, adds many new
features, and fixes a couple of bugs. Most programs which use
textwrap
stays the same, incompatibilities and upgrade notes are
given below.
Clone the repository and run the following to explore the new features in an interactive demo (Linux only):
$ cargo run --example interactive --all-features
Bug Fixes
Rewritten core wrapping algorithm
- #221: Reformulate wrapping in terms of words with whitespace and penalties.
The core wrapping algorithm has been completely rewritten. This fixed
bugs and simplified the code, while also making it possible to use
textwrap
outside the context of the terminal.
As part of this, trailing whitespace is now discarded consistently from wrapped lines. Before we would inconsistently remove whitespace at the end of wrapped lines, except for the last. Leading whitespace is still preserved.
New Features
Optimal-fit wrapping
- #234: Introduce wrapping using an optimal-fit algorithm.
This release adds support for new wrapping algorithm which finds a globally optimal set of line breaks, taking certain penalties into account. As an example, the old algorithm would produce
"To be, or"
"not to be:"
"that is"
"the"
"question"
Notice how the fourth line with “the” is very short. The new algorithm shortens the previous lines slightly to produce fewer short lines:
"To be,"
"or not to"
"be: that"
"is the"
"question"
Use the new textwrap::core::WrapAlgorithm
enum to select between the
new and old algorithm. By default, the new algorithm is used.
The optimal-fit algorithm is inspired by the line breaking algorithm used in TeX, described in the 1981 article Breaking Paragraphs into Lines by Knuth and Plass.
In-place wrapping
- #226: Add a
fill_inplace
function.
When the text you want to fill is already a temporary String
, you
can now mutate it in-place with fill_inplace
:
let mut greeting = format!("Greetings {}, welcome to the game! You have {} lives left.",
player.name, player.lives);
fill_inplace(&mut greeting, line_width);
This is faster than calling fill
and it will reuse the memory
already allocated for the string.
Changed Features
Wrapper
is replaced with Options
- #213: Simplify API with only top-level functions.
- #215: Reintroducing
the type parameter on
Options
(previously known asWrapper
). - #219: Allow using
trait objects with
fill
&wrap
. - #227: Replace
WrapOptions
withInto<Options>
.
The Wrapper
struct held the options (line width, indentation, etc)
for wrapping text. It was also the entry point for actually wrapping
the text via its methods such as wrap
, wrap_iter
,
into_wrap_iter
, and fill
methods.
The struct has been replaced by a simpler Options
struct which only
holds options. The Wrapper
methods are gone, their job has been
taken over by the top-level wrap
and fill
functions. The signature
of these functions have changed from
fn fill(s: &str, width: usize) -> String;
fn wrap(s: &str, width: usize) -> Vec<Cow<'_, str>>;
to the more general
fn fill<'a, S, Opt>(text: &str, options: Opt) -> String
where
S: WordSplitter,
Opt: Into<Options<'a, S>>;
fn wrap<'a, S, Opt>(text: &str, options: Opt) -> Vec<Cow<'_, str>>
where
S: WordSplitter,
Opt: Into<Options<'a, S>>;
The Into<Options<'a, S>
bound allows you to pass an usize
(which
is interpreted as the line width) and a full Options
object. This
allows the new functions to work like the old, plus you can now fully
customize the behavior of the wrapping via Options
when needed.
Code that call textwrap::wrap
or textwrap::fill
can remain
unchanged. Code that calls into Wrapper::wrap
or Wrapper::fill
will need to be update. This is a mechanical change, please see
#213 for examples.
Thanks to @CryptJar and @Koxiat for their support in the PRs above!
Removed Features
-
The
wrap_iter
andinto_wrap_iter
methods are gone. This means that lazy iteration is no longer supported: you always get all wrapped lines back as aVec
. This was done to simplify the code and to support the optimal-fit algorithm.The first-fit algorithm could still be implemented in an incremental fashion. Please let us know if this is important to you.
Other Changes
- #206: Change
Wrapper.splitter
fromT: WordSplitter
toBox<dyn WordSplitter>
. - #216: Forbid the use of unsafe code.
Version 0.12.1 (2020-07-03)
This is a bugfix release.
- Fixed #176: Mention compile-time wrapping by linking to
the
textwrap-macros
crate. - Fixed #193: Wrapping with
break_words(false)
was broken and would cause extra whitespace to be inserted when words were longer than the line width.
Version 0.12.0 (2020-06-26)
The code has been updated to the Rust 2018 edition and
each new release of textwrap
will only support the latest stable
version of Rust. Trying to support older Rust versions is a fool's
errand: our dependencies keep releasing new patch versions that
require newer and newer versions of Rust.
The term_size
feature has been replaced by terminal_size
. The API
is unchanged, it is just the name of the Cargo feature that changed.
The hyphenation
feature now only embeds the hyphenation patterns for
US-English. This slims down the dependency.
- Fixed #140: Ignore ANSI escape sequences.
- Fixed #158: Unintended wrapping when using external splitter.
- Fixed #177: Update examples to the 2018 edition.
Version 0.11.0 (2018-12-09)
Due to our dependencies bumping their minimum supported version of Rust, the minimum version of Rust we test against is now 1.22.0.
- Merged #141: Fix
dedent
handling of empty lines and trailing newlines. Thanks @bbqsrc! - Fixed #151: Release of version with hyphenation 0.7.
Version 0.10.0 (2018-04-28)
Due to our dependencies bumping their minimum supported version of Rust, the minimum version of Rust we test against is now 1.17.0.
- Fixed #99: Word broken even though it would fit on line.
- Fixed #107: Automatic hyphenation is off by one.
- Fixed #122: Take newlines into account when wrapping.
- Fixed #129: Panic on string with em-dash.
Version 0.9.0 (2017-10-05)
The dependency on term_size
is now optional, and by default this
feature is not enabled. This is a breaking change for users of
Wrapper::with_termwidth
. Enable the term_size
feature to restore
the old functionality.
Added a regression test for the case where width
is set to
usize::MAX
, thanks @Fraser999! All public structs now implement
Debug
, thanks @hcpl!
- Fixed #101: Make
term_size
an optional dependency.
Version 0.8.0 (2017-09-04)
The Wrapper
stuct is now generic over the type of word splitter
being used. This means less boxing and a nicer API. The
Wrapper::word_splitter
method has been removed. This is a breaking
API change if you used the method to change the word splitter.
The Wrapper
struct has two new methods that will wrap the input text
lazily: Wrapper::wrap_iter
and Wrapper::into_wrap_iter
. Use those
if you will be iterating over the wrapped lines one by one.
Version 0.7.0 (2017-07-20)
Version 0.7.0 changes the return type of Wrapper::wrap
from
Vec<String>
to Vec<Cow<'a, str>>
. This means that the output lines
borrow data from the input string. This is a breaking API change if
you relied on the exact return type of Wrapper::wrap
. Callers of the
textwrap::fill
convenience function will see no breakage.
The above change and other optimizations makes version 0.7.0 roughly 15-30% faster than version 0.6.0.
The squeeze_whitespace
option has been removed since it was
complicating the above optimization. Let us know if this option is
important for you so we can provide a work around.
Version 0.6.0 (2017-05-22)
Version 0.6.0 adds builder methods to Wrapper
for easy one-line
initialization and configuration:
let wrapper = Wrapper::new(60).break_words(false);
It also add a new NoHyphenation
word splitter that will never split
words, not even at existing hyphens.
- Fixed #28: Support not squeezing whitespace.
Version 0.5.0 (2017-05-15)
Version 0.5.0 has breaking API changes. However, this only affects
code using the hyphenation feature. The feature is now optional, so
you will first need to enable the hyphenation
feature as described
above. Afterwards, please change your code from
wrapper.corpus = Some(&corpus);
to
wrapper.splitter = Box::new(corpus);
Other changes include optimizations, so version 0.5.0 is roughly 10-15% faster than version 0.4.0.
- Fixed #19: Add support for finding terminal size.
- Fixed #25: Handle words longer than
self.width
. - Fixed #26: Support custom indentation.
- Fixed #36: Support building without
hyphenation
. - Fixed #39: Respect non-breaking spaces.
Version 0.4.0 (2017-01-24)
Documented complexities and tested these via cargo bench
.
Version 0.3.0 (2017-01-07)
Added support for automatic hyphenation.
Version 0.2.0 (2016-12-28)
Introduced Wrapper
struct. Added support for wrapping on hyphens.
Version 0.1.0 (2016-12-17)
First public release with support for wrapping strings on whitespace.