CLI configuration option for default table layout

[harridu]

IMHO the ASCII graphics added to the tables provided by various incus commands is pretty much distracting. Some say, its a waste of precious screen space. I would highly appreciate an environment variable or a central config option to make "-f compact" the default, even for the tables hidden deep inside the output of various incus subcommands, eg the table of snapshots for "incus info containername".

Hopefully I am not too blind to see. I am new to Incus, and I haven't found the man page for .config/incus/config.yml yet.

Required information

• Distribution: Debian
• Distribution version: 12.6
• The output of "incus info" or if that fails:
  • Kernel version: Linux srvl051.example.com 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.7.12-1~bpo12+1 (2024-05-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux
  • LXC version: 1:5.0.3-2~xgo120+1
  • Incus version: 6.0.0-1~bpo12+1
  • Storage backend in use: lvm

[stgraber]

There is a way to do it through aliases.

incus alias add list "list -fcompact"

[harridu]

root@srvl051:~# incus alias add info "info -fcompact"
root@srvl051:~# incus info first
Error: unknown shorthand flag: 'f' in -fcompact

As written above, a central config option affecting all tables would be nice.

[smemsh]

for that matter, if the boxes used utf-8 linedraw chars, they would be a lot easier on the eyes... maybe also helpful if the outside borders were optional.

[stgraber]

We're basically just consuming https://github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter

[mjf]

@stgraber I would also love to see output example 10 as default for tables or a global configuration option (the easiest to implement, I guess). To setup all the aliases (which I did) is truly suboptimal.