Refactoring of the EvMore to use the new justifier functionality and also properly deal with very long single lines.

evennia/utils/evmore.py

@@ -11,18 +11,20 @@ To use, simply pass the text through the EvMore object:
     from evennia.utils.evmore import EvMore
 
     text = some_long_text_output()
-    EvMore(caller, text, always_page=False, **kwargs)
+    EvMore(caller, text, always_page=False, session=None, justify_kwargs=None, **kwargs)
 
 One can also use the convenience function msg from this module:
 
     from evennia.utils import evmore
 
     text = some_long_text_output()
-    evmore.msg(caller, text, **kwargs)
+    evmore.msg(caller, text, always_page=False, session=None, justify_kwargs=None, **kwargs)
 
 Where always_page decides if the pager is used also if the text is not
-long enough to need to scroll and **kwargs will be passed on to the
+long enough to need to scroll, session is used to determine which session to relay to
-caller.msg() construct (text will be using the pager restrictor).
+and justify_kwargs are kwargs to pass to utils.utils.justify in order to change the formatting
+of the text. The remaining **kwargs will be passed on to the
+caller.msg() construct every time the page is updated.
 
 """
 from builtins import object, range
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ from builtins import object, range
 from django.conf import settings
 from evennia import Command, CmdSet
 from evennia.commands import cmdhandler
+from evennia.utils.utils import justify
 
 _CMD_NOMATCH = cmdhandler.CMD_NOMATCH
 _CMD_NOINPUT = cmdhandler.CMD_NOINPUT
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ _SCREEN_HEIGHT = settings.CLIENT_DEFAULT_HEIGHT
 
 _DISPLAY = \
 """{text}
-({{wmore{{n [{pageno}/{pagemax}] retur{{wn{{n|{{wb{{nack|{{wt{{nop|{{we{{nnd|{{wa{{nbort)"""
+(|wmore|n [{pageno}/{pagemax}] retur|wn|n|||wb|nack|||wt|nop|||we|nnd|||wq|nuit)"""
 
 
 class CmdMore(Command):
@@ -50,7 +53,8 @@ class CmdMore(Command):
     Manipulate the text paging
     """
     key = _CMD_NOINPUT
-    aliases = ["abort", "a", "next", "n", "back", "b", "top", "t", "end", "e"]
+    aliases = ["quit", "q", "abort", "a", "next", "n",
+               "back", "b", "top", "t", "end", "e"]
     auto_help = False
 
     def func(self):
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@ class CmdMore(Command):
 
         cmd = self.cmdstring
 
-        if cmd in ("abort", "a"):
+        if cmd in ("abort", "a", "q"):
             more.page_quit()
         elif cmd in ("back", "b"):
             more.page_back()
@@ -94,7 +98,7 @@ class EvMore(object):
     """
     The main pager object
     """
-    def __init__(self, caller, text, always_page=False, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, caller, text, always_page=False, session=None, justify_kwargs=None, **kwargs):
         """
         Initialization of the text handler.
 
@@ -110,17 +114,34 @@ class EvMore(object):
         """
         self._caller = caller
         self._kwargs = kwargs
-        lines = text.split("\n")
         self._pages = []
         self._npages = []
         self._npos = []
-        # we use the first session here
+        if not session:
-        sessions = caller.sessions.get()
+            # if not supplied, use the first session to
-        if not sessions:
+            # determine screen size
-            return
+            sessions = caller.sessions.get()
-        session = sessions[0]
+            if not sessions:
+                return
+            session = sessions[0]
+        self._session = session
+
         # set up individual pages for different sessions
         height = session.protocol_flags.get("SCREENHEIGHT", {0:_SCREEN_HEIGHT})[0] - 2
+        width = session.protocol_flags.get("SCREENWIDTH", {0:_SCREEN_WIDTH})[0]
+
+        # we must break very long lines into multiple ones
+        justify_kwargs = justify_kwargs or {}
+        width = justify_kwargs.get("width", width)
+        justify_kwargs["width"] = width
+        justify_kwargs["align"] = justify_kwargs.get("align", 'l')
+        justify_kwargs["indent"] = justify_kwargs.get("indent", 0)
+
+        lines = justify(text, **justify_kwargs).split("\n")
+
+        # always limit number of chars to 10 000 per page
+        height = min(10000 // width, height)
+
         self._pages = ["\n".join(lines[i:i+height]) for i in range(0, len(lines), height)]
         self._npages = len(self._pages)
         self._npos = 0
@@ -146,7 +167,7 @@ class EvMore(object):
         page = _DISPLAY.format(text=text,
                                pageno=pos + 1,
                                pagemax=self._npages)
-        self._caller.msg(text=page, **self._kwargs)
+        self._caller.msg(text=page, session=self._session, **self._kwargs)
 
     def page_top(self):
         """
@@ -187,13 +208,14 @@ class EvMore(object):
         """
         del self._caller.ndb._more
         self._caller.cmdset.remove(CmdSetMore)
+        self._caller.msg("Exited |wmore|n pager.")
 
 
-def msg(caller, text="", **kwargs):
+def msg(caller, text="", always_page=False, session=None, justify_kwargs=None, **kwargs):
     """
     More-supported version of msg, mimicking the
     normal msg method.
     """
-    always_page = kwargs.pop("always_page", False)
+    EvMore(caller, text, always_page=always_page, session=session,
-    EvMore(caller, text, always_page, **kwargs)
+                justify_kwargs=justify_kwargs, **kwargs)