Right, given the behaviour can be achieved, I would rather rely on
post-processing compared to adding more complexity to the codebase, unless
there is a reason not to.

Note you could also perform a String.replace(string, "\n", "\n    ").

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 6:17 PM Daniel Kukuła <daniel.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently I did a pr to hammox to use pretty printing in the inspected map.
> Currently this is inspected as one line single line and it's a pain to
> look at when you have an mismatch in a struct.
> The way hammox displays the errors is every nested error is padded 2
> spaces deeper.
> I had to split the inspected message and then join it with padding - I
> think that inspect should support it out of the box so we don't have to
> post process the generated message.
> html is just an example where it's useful- every time I did inspect in a
> template I remember the same problem - the inspected structure is one long
> line.
>
> https://github.com/msz/hammox/blob/a7afe45fd0f8ba79d06fde0a75458f76853572b3/lib/hammox/type_match_error.ex#L150
>
> On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 5:03:54 PM UTC José Valim wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Can you please provide more information about the problem you are trying
>> to solve? I have rendered inspected representations on HTML several times
>> and I never needed extensions to the API. You should always be able to
>> replace "\n" by either padding or "<br />" without concerns on the rendered
>> output. So if you can explain what is not working or not possible, it would
>> help move this forward.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 5:57 PM Daniel Kukuła <danie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently we can set the width when inspecting - it would be useful to
>>> have also a padding option that accepts either an integer of empty strings
>>> or better a custom string so we can add `<br>` when pretty printing in html
>>>
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