Since I was digging around over the weekend after the change to move
away from light black, and the impact it had on less important
information showing more prominently than it used to, I took a step
back and did a deeper tidying up of things. Another side goal of this
exercise was to be a little more respectful of terminal width; when
we could say things with fewer words, I did so.
* Stylize the preview/update summary differently, so that it stands
out as a section. Also highlight the total changes with bold -- it
turns out this has a similar effect to the bright white colorization,
just without the negative effects on e.g. white terminals.
* Eliminate some verbosity in the phrasing of change summaries.
* Make all heading sections stylized consistently. This includes
the color (bright magenta) and the vertical spacing (always a newline
separating headings). We were previously inconsistent on this (e.g.,
outputs were under "---outputs---"). Now the headings are:
Previewing (etc), Diagnostics, Outputs, Resources, Duration, and Permalink.
* Fix an issue where we'd parent things to "global" until the stack
object later showed up. Now we'll simply mock up a stack resource.
* Don't show messages like "no change" or "unchanged". Prior to the
light black removal, these faded into the background of the terminal.
Now they just clutter up the display. Similar to the elision of "*"
for OpSames in a prior commit, just leave these out. Now anything
that's written is actually a meaningful status for the user to note.
* Don't show the "3 info messages," etc. summaries in the Info column
while an update is ongoing. Instead, just show the latest line. This
is more respectful of width -- I often find that the important
messages scroll off the right of my screen before this change.
For discussion:
- I actually wonder if we should eliminate the summary
altogether and always just show the latest line. Or even
blank it out. The summary feels better suited for the
Diagnostics section, and the Status concisely tells us
how a resource's update ended up (failed, succeeded, etc).
- Similarly, I question the idea of showing only the "worst"
message. I'd vote for always showing the latest, and again
leaving it to the Status column for concisely telling the
user about the final state a resource ended up in.
* Stop prepending "info: " to every stdout/stderr message. It adds
no value, clutters up the display, and worsens horizontal usage.
* Lessen the verbosity of update headline messages, so we now instead
of e.g. "Previewing update of stack 'x':", we just say
"Previewing update (x):".
* Eliminate vertical whitespace in the Diagnostics section. Every
independent console.out previously was separated by an entire newline,
which made the section look cluttered to my eyes. These are just
streams of logs, there's no reason for the extra newlines.
* Colorize the resource headers in the Diagnostic section light blue.
Note that this will change various test baselines, which I will
update next. I didn't want those in the same commit.
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