Predictable Tabs

At last: tabs that render the way you want ’em to. With the new Style.TabWidth() method, you can determine exactly how a \t will render.

Before this release, Lip Gloss used to mis-measure a tab (i.e. a \t) at 0 cells wide when they actually render at different widths in different terminals (usually 8 cells, sometimes 4 cells). For these reasons, tabs are almost never what you want when designing layouts for TUIs.

With this release, a tab will get converted to 4 spaces by default—so this is a behavioral change—but you can customize the behavior as well as disable it entirely.

s := lipgloss.NewStyle()        // 4 spaces per tab, the default
s = s.TabWidth(2)               // 2 spaces per tab
s = s.TabWidth(0)               // remove tabs
s = s.TabWidth(-1)              // don't convert tabs to spaces
s = s.TabWidth(NoTabConversion) // alias of the above

You can disable the feature with Style.TabWidth(NoTabConversion) (or Style.TabWidth(-1), if you're the pedantic type).

Bug Fixes

This release also includes a bunch of bug fixes. This includes:

• fix: border size calculation by @mieubrisse in #197
• fix: renderer race condition by @aymanbagabas in #210
• fix: cache color profile and background by @aymanbagabas in #212

Full Changelog: v0.7.1...v0.8.0