Feature request: Question comment

[GHNewbiee]

The case
a) After answering a question, some following questions may have not to be asked.
b) In that case, I need to display a message, right after the answer and before the next question is asked, informing the user about those questions that will not be asked, etc.

The problem

• For a), when is used to by-pass questions
• For b), if no other question object function property cannot be used (*) a comment property might be added

Remark(*): I have tried to write in console through a filter or transformer function, but it failed.

Example

import inquirer from "inquirer";

inquirer
  .prompt([
    {
      type: 'confirm',
      name: 'fruit',
      message: 'Is it a fruit?',
      default: true,
      comment: input => input ? 'Question "sweet" is omitted!' : '',
    },
    {
      type: 'confirm',
      name: 'sweet',
      message: 'Is it sweet?',
      default: true,
      when: answers => answers.fruit ? false : true,
    },
    {
      type: 'confirm',
      name: 'example',
      message: 'Is it a good example?',
      default: true,
    }
  ])
  .then(() => {
    ...
  })

? Is it a fruit? Yes
Question "sweet" is omitted!
? is it a good example? Y/n
...

Tia

[GHNewbiee]

Next workarounds would be used to by-pass this issue, although both are not so elegant.

• prefix of the next question (if exists), or
• within then() (when it's the last question)

A form of a question is like:

• prefix <the space before question>
• message <the question>
• suffix <the space after question and before answer ie the space between question and answer>
• answer

It makes sense that one would assume that also <the space after answer> should exist and is missing; that could be the comment or any other name.

• comment <the space after answer>

If a new property does not break backward compatibility, then comment (string|function) would be added.

Tia

[GHNewbiee]

Other names could be: epilogue, afterword, postscript, ps, coda, codicil, appendix, supplement, addendum

[comatory]

I have the same need but I would actually like to display something before question is asked 😆 . It's too long to be part of "prefix".

It would be great to have some kind of support for scenarios where you need to output something to output between questions.

[SBoudrias]

@comatory could you just console.log before calling inquirer.prompt (and maybe just split in 2 prompt calls)?