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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap/README.md b/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..60ae31170 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# go-wordwrap + +`go-wordwrap` (Golang package: `wordwrap`) is a package for Go that +automatically wraps words into multiple lines. The primary use case for this +is in formatting CLI output, but of course word wrapping is a generally useful +thing to do. + +## Installation and Usage + +Install using `go get github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap`. + +Full documentation is available at +http://godoc.org/github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap + +Below is an example of its usage ignoring errors: + +```go +wrapped := wordwrap.WrapString("foo bar baz", 3) +fmt.Println(wrapped) +``` + +Would output: + +``` +foo +bar +baz +``` + +## Word Wrap Algorithm + +This library doesn't use any clever algorithm for word wrapping. The wrapping +is actually very naive: whenever there is whitespace or an explicit linebreak. +The goal of this library is for word wrapping CLI output, so the input is +typically pretty well controlled human language. Because of this, the naive +approach typically works just fine. + +In the future, we'd like to make the algorithm more advanced. We would do +so without breaking the API. |