Further improve the formatting

client.go

@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 package saltyim
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
-	"log"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/dim13/crc24"
 	"github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2"
 	"github.com/keys-pub/keys"
+	"github.com/posener/formatter"
 	"github.com/rivo/tview"
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"go.mills.io/salty"
 	"go.yarn.social/lextwt"
 )
@@ -99,6 +101,19 @@ func (cc *chatClient) updateChatBox(inCh <-chan string, app *tview.Application,
 				continue
 			}
 
+			buf := &bytes.Buffer{}
+
+			f := formatter.Formatter{
+				Writer: buf,
+				Indent: []byte(">  "),
+				Width:  80,
+			}
+
+			if _, err := f.Write([]byte(s.LiteralText())); err != nil {
+				log.WithError(err).Error("error formatting message")
+				continue
+			}
+
 			cc.mu.RLock()
 			app.QueueUpdateDraw(func() {
 				fmt.Fprintf(chatBox,
@@ -108,7 +123,7 @@ func (cc *chatClient) updateChatBox(inCh <-chan string, app *tview.Application,
 					getUserColor(s.User.String()).Hex(),
 					s.User.String(),
 					cc.palette["text"],
-					s.LiteralText(),
+					buf.String(),
 				)
 			})
 			cc.mu.RUnlock()

format.go

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 package saltyim
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"hash/fnv"
 	"os"
 
 	"github.com/logrusorgru/aurora"
+	"github.com/posener/formatter"
 	"go.yarn.social/lextwt"
 )
 
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@ func GetUserColor(user string, lower, upper uint8) uint8 {
 	return boundedInt(uint8(h.Sum32()), lower, upper)
 }
 
+// FormatMessage formats the msg for display on the terminal
 func FormatMessage(msg string) string {
 	s, err := lextwt.ParseSalty(msg)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -35,10 +38,23 @@ func FormatMessage(msg string) string {
 
 	userColor := GetUserColor(st.User.String(), 16, 231)
 
+	buf := &bytes.Buffer{}
+
+	f := formatter.Formatter{
+		Writer: buf,
+		Indent: []byte(">  "),
+		Width:  80,
+	}
+
+	if _, err := f.Write([]byte(st.LiteralText())); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error formatting message: %s", err)
+		return ""
+	}
+
 	return fmt.Sprintf(
-		"%s\t%s\t%s\n",
+		"%s\t%s\n%s\n",
 		aurora.Sprintf(aurora.Blue(st.Timestamp.DateTime().Local().Format(dateTimeFormat))),
 		aurora.Sprintf(aurora.Index(userColor, st.User.String())),
-		st.LiteralText(),
+		buf.String(),
 	)
 }

go.mod

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/logrusorgru/aurora v2.0.3+incompatible
 	github.com/magiconair/properties v1.8.6 // indirect
 	github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/posener/formatter v1.0.0
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.12.1 // indirect
 	github.com/rivo/tview v0.0.0-20220307222120-9994674d60a8
 	github.com/shopspring/decimal v1.3.1 // indirect

go.sum

@@ -399,6 +399,8 @@ github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZb
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
 github.com/posener/complete v1.1.1/go.mod h1:em0nMJCgc9GFtwrmVmEMR/ZL6WyhyjMBndrE9hABlRI=
 github.com/posener/complete v1.2.3/go.mod h1:WZIdtGGp+qx0sLrYKtIRAruyNpv6hFCicSgv7Sy7s/s=
+github.com/posener/formatter v1.0.0 h1:TwXJq26f9ERTjCpZj8xEWj77WPWfX/nBgGx52Ap/gYM=
+github.com/posener/formatter v1.0.0/go.mod h1:xrC89js6vw5dde/9yUKKU9MY5ivn980yX4VG7gYQTvU=
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v0.9.1/go.mod h1:7SWBe2y4D6OKWSNQJUaRYU/AaXPKyh/dDVn+NZz0KFw=
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v0.9.2/go.mod h1:OsXs2jCmiKlQ1lTBmv21f2mNfw4xf/QclQDMrYNZzcM=
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.0.0/go.mod h1:db9x61etRT2tGnBNRi70OPL5FsnadC4Ky3P0J6CfImo=