console.lua: default to a proportional font for select

In the select menu there are no completions to align in a grid, so the
better looking proportional font of --osd-font can be used by default.
It is also easier to read for the visually impaired.

The text width calculation is no longer performed if the console is only
opened through select, it is only performed the first time something is
completed. This avoids having to pass an argument to get_font() to make
it use the monospace font regardless of selectable_items.

Fixes #15176.

DOCS/man/console.rst

@@ -147,11 +147,14 @@ Configurable Options
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 ``font``
-    Default: unset (picks a hardcoded font depending on detected platform)
+    Default: a monospace font depending on the platform
 
-    Set the font used for the REPL and the console.
-    This has to be a monospaced font for the completion suggestions to be
-    aligned correctly.
+    Set the font used for the console.
+    A monospaced font is necessary to align completion suggestions correctly in
+    a grid.
+    If the console was opened by calling ``mp.input.select`` and no font was
+    configured, ``--osd-font`` is used, as alignment is not necessary in that
+    case.
 
 ``font_size``
     Default: 24

player/lua/console.lua

@@ -15,17 +15,6 @@
 local utils = require 'mp.utils'
 local assdraw = require 'mp.assdraw'
 
--- Default options
-local opts = {
-    font = "",
-    font_size = 24,
-    border_size = 1.5,
-    scale_with_window = "auto",
-    case_sensitive = true,
-    history_dedup = true,
-    font_hw_ratio = 'auto',
-}
-
 local function detect_platform()
     local platform = mp.get_property_native('platform')
     if platform == 'darwin' or platform == 'windows' then
@@ -36,16 +25,18 @@ local function detect_platform()
     return 'x11'
 end
 
--- Pick a better default font for Windows and macOS
 local platform = detect_platform()
-if platform == 'windows' then
-    opts.font = 'Consolas'
-    opts.case_sensitive = false
-elseif platform == 'darwin' then
-    opts.font = 'Menlo'
-else
-    opts.font = 'monospace'
-end
+
+-- Default options
+local opts = {
+    font = "",
+    font_size = 16,
+    border_size = 1,
+    scale_with_window = "auto",
+    case_sensitive = platform ~= 'windows' and true or false,
+    history_dedup = true,
+    font_hw_ratio = 'auto',
+}
 
 -- Apply user-set options
 require 'mp.options'.read_options(opts)
@@ -117,6 +108,28 @@ local default_item
 local set_active
 
 
+local function get_font()
+    if opts.font ~= '' then
+        return opts.font
+    end
+
+    if selectable_items and not searching_history then
+        return
+    end
+
+    -- Pick a better default font for Windows and macOS
+    if platform == 'windows' then
+        return 'Consolas'
+    end
+
+    if platform == 'darwin' then
+        return 'Menlo'
+    end
+
+    return 'monospace'
+end
+
+
 -- Naive helper function to find the next UTF-8 character in 'str' after 'pos'
 -- by skipping continuation bytes. Assumes 'str' contains valid UTF-8.
 local function next_utf8(str, pos)
@@ -184,7 +197,7 @@ local function normalized_text_width(text, size, horizontal)
     for i = 1, repetitions_left do
         size = size * 0.8
         local ass = assdraw.ass_new()
-        ass.text = template:format(align, size, opts.font, rotation, text)
+        ass.text = template:format(align, size, get_font(), rotation, text)
         local _, _, x1, y1 = measure_bounds(ass.text)
         -- Check if nothing got clipped
         if x1 and x1 < osd_width and y1 < osd_height then
@@ -507,10 +520,12 @@ local function update()
                                  screenx .. ',' .. screeny
     local ass = assdraw.ass_new()
     local has_shadow = mp.get_property('osd-border-style'):find('box$') == nil
+    local font = get_font()
     local style = '{\\r' ..
                   '\\1a&H00&\\3a&H00&\\1c&Heeeeee&\\3c&H111111&' ..
                   (has_shadow and '\\4a&H99&\\4c&H000000&' or '') ..
-                  '\\fn' .. opts.font .. '\\fs' .. opts.font_size ..
+                  (font and '\\fn' .. font or '') ..
+                  '\\fs' .. opts.font_size ..
                   '\\bord' .. opts.border_size .. '\\xshad0\\yshad1\\fsp0' ..
                   (selectable_items and '\\q2' or '\\q1') ..
                   '\\clip(' .. clipping_coordinates .. ')}'
@@ -534,20 +549,24 @@ local function update()
     -- This will render at most screeny / font_size - 1 messages.
 
     local lines_max = calculate_max_log_lines()
-    -- Estimate how many characters fit in one line
-    local width_max = math.floor((screenx - bottom_left_margin -
-                                  mp.get_property_native('osd-margin-x') * 2 * screeny / 720) /
-                                 opts.font_size * get_font_hw_ratio())
+    local suggestion_ass = ''
+    if next(suggestion_buffer) then
+        -- Estimate how many characters fit in one line
+        local width_max = math.floor((screenx - bottom_left_margin -
+                                     mp.get_property_native('osd-margin-x') * 2 * screeny / 720)
+                                     / opts.font_size * get_font_hw_ratio())
 
-    local suggestions, rows = format_table(suggestion_buffer, width_max, lines_max)
-    local suggestion_ass = style .. styles.suggestion .. suggestions
+        local suggestions, rows = format_table(suggestion_buffer, width_max, lines_max)
+        lines_max = lines_max - rows
+        suggestion_ass = style .. styles.suggestion .. suggestions .. '\\N'
+    end
 
     populate_log_with_matches()
 
     local log_ass = ''
     local log_buffer = log_buffers[id]
     local log_messages = #log_buffer
-    local log_max_lines = math.max(0, lines_max - rows)
+    local log_max_lines = math.max(0, lines_max)
     if log_max_lines < log_messages then
         log_messages = log_max_lines
     end
@@ -560,9 +579,7 @@ local function update()
     ass:an(1)
     ass:pos(bottom_left_margin, screeny - bottom_left_margin - global_margins.b * screeny)
     ass:append(log_ass .. '\\N')
-    if #suggestions > 0 then
-        ass:append(suggestion_ass .. '\\N')
-    end
+    ass:append(suggestion_ass)
     ass:append(style .. ass_escape(prompt) .. ' ' .. before_cur)
     ass:append(cglyph)
     ass:append(style .. after_cur)