tape output diffs / linebreak

[fab1an]

I use tape to test a source-generator so I often have larger files to compare.

Tape shows me the output with linebreaks escaped as '\n', which is difficult to read. Is there a way I could have a line-by-line diff. Or compare two arrays and have tape tell me which elements differ?

[ljharb]

Improving the failure output seems like it's still a useful feature request, this should remain open.

[thewilkybarkid]

I've just been running into the same problem: tape has been working really well, except for the fact that failures on the multiline strings I'm trying to assert on are pretty unreadable:

Looks like this happens with the use of inspect-object:

https://github.com/substack/tape/blob/021fa6d22bc85f2e8f075405bcb97c6a1b87af22/lib/results.js#L174-L175

Would it make sense to skip this if it's already a string? Line breaks would then be present, but you'd lose the single quotes surrounding it (does that qualify as a breaking change?).

[ljharb]

@thewilkybarkid the surrounding quotes are important. It seems reasonable for tape to maybe take an option, and pass an option to object-inspect (and add the option there if needed) to improve the formatting here.