Column output

[bornsilly]

By lack of a better description, i am wondering if it is possible to have beet output what you query in a column style output so that for example if i say that artist is 40 long it shows 40 characters whether the artist name 1 character long or 50. This way you will see all the fields nicely padded out rather than all being trimmed.

Sor for example:

beet ls -f "$artist - $title ($year) [$genre]"

Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection (1984) [Pop]
Alison Moyet - That Ole Devil Called Love (1985) [Pop]

becomes:

Alison Moyet                    - Love Resurrection                 (1984)  [Pop]
Alison Moyet                    - That Ole Devil Called Love        (1985)  [Pop]

I could picture something like:

beet ls -f "$artist{40} $title{50} $year{4} [$genre]{10}" to be a awsome feature if it already doesnt excists.

[loop333]

for linux:
.zshrc:
beet_fa() { (echo "fmt^id^year^genre^label^catno^#d^#t^albumartist - album"; beet ls -a -f '$format^$id^$year^%left{$genre,30}^$label^$catalognum^$disctotal^$albumtotal^$albumartist - $album' path+ "$@") | column -t -s "^" }