Boolean Type Clarification about prompt-base HOT 2 CLOSED

The types provided in prompt-base are intended to be base level prompts that are inherited to build other prompts. They provide some common functionality that's useful for a certain "type" of prompt. boolean, for instance, has the functionality to handle "truthy" and "falsey" values, but it doesn't handle arrow keys because the functionality that occurs when hitting an arrow key is determined by the current value. (e.g. pressing "right arrow" when true, will select false, but when false, will select true).

In the dev branch of enquirer, there are implementations of prompt-confirm and prompt-toggle which use the boolean type. prompt-confirm changes the UI to show Y/n as you pointed out, and prompt-toggle provides additional keypress functionality to handle toggling the value when pressing arrow keys.

If we decide that the arrow key toggling functionality is common enough to include in prompt-confirm, then we could consider moving it to the boolean type. Or, as you mentioned linux and other cli tools... if the right arrow always selects the "falsey" value and the left arrow always selects the "truthy" value, then it might be good to have those in the boolean type, then prompt-confirm will gain that feature.

I hope this clears it up.

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Yes that makes total sense, thanks!

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