Adjust indentation of help strings

Uses backspace character (\b) because argparse does not provide any way to override the amount of indentation. Although argparse.HelpFormatter exposes an option for the amount of indendation, it is undocumented and not part of the public interface. Signed-off-by: John Pennycook <[email protected]>
intel · Aug 30, 2024 · fcc9a08 · fcc9a08
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diff --git a/bin/codebasin b/bin/codebasin
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ def _help_string(*lines: str, is_long=False, is_last=False):
     if not is_long:
         result = "\n"
 
+    # argparse.HelpFormatter indents by 24 characters.
+    # We cannot override this directly, but can delete them with backspaces.
+    lines = ["\b" * 20 + x for x in lines]
+
     # The additional space is required for argparse to respect newlines.
     result += "\n".join(lines)