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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libutil/args.cc | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/args.cc b/src/libutil/args.cc index 2930913d6..35686a8aa 100644 --- a/src/libutil/args.cc +++ b/src/libutil/args.cc @@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ void Args::removeFlag(const std::string & longName) void Completions::add(std::string completion, std::string description) { - assert(description.find('\n') == std::string::npos); + description = trim(description); + // ellipsize overflowing content on the back of the description + auto end_index = description.find_first_of(".\n"); + if (end_index != std::string::npos) { + auto needs_ellipsis = end_index != description.size() - 1; + description.resize(end_index); + if (needs_ellipsis) + description.append(" [...]"); + } insert(Completion { .completion = completion, .description = description |