markbennett.ca / tangled-cli
WIP: A simple cli for daily tangled use cases and AI integration. This is for my personal use right now, but happy if others get mileage from it! :)
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Style closed issues differently in issue list output #16

open opened by markbennett.ca

Context#

tangled issue list currently shows open and closed issues with identical formatting, distinguished only by the [OPEN] / [CLOSED] text label. As the issue list grows (especially once --state all is supported, issue #15), closed issues become visual noise that competes with open ones.

The gh CLI uses colour and dimming to make closed/merged items visually recede, which helps users quickly scan for actionable items at a glance.

Tasks#

  • Apply distinct styling to closed issues in tangled issue list output — for example, dim/grey text or a different colour for the [CLOSED] badge and title.
  • Use a terminal colour library already in the project (or add a lightweight one such as kleur or chalk) to apply the styling.
  • Ensure styling is suppressed when stdout is not a TTY (piped output should remain plain text) — consistent with the "TTY = human mode, pipe = machine mode" philosophy in the README.
  • Add or update tests to verify that ANSI codes are present in TTY mode and absent in non-TTY mode for closed issues.

Notes#

Colour output should only be applied when process.stdout.isTTY is true, to keep piped and --json output clean. This is a display-only change with no effect on data or API calls.

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