cli.user_theme has no effect on abort and friends

[thothal]

Crosspost

I originally asked this question on Stackoverflow, but as I simply copied and pasted the official documents on condition customization I think it is indeed an issue (either with the docs or the code).

Problem

I tried to customize the look and feel of the condition messages but to not avail. I followed word by word the docs but in both the native R console and the RStudio console I still see the default bullets despite my efforts to change them to * (or its Unicode equivalent for all it matters):

options(cli.user_theme = list(
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-*" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-i" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-x" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-v" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet->" = list(before = "* ")
))

rlang::abort(c(
  "The error message.",
  "*" = "Regular bullet.",
  "i" = "Informative bullet.",
  "x" = "Cross bullet.",
  "v" = "Victory bullet.",
  ">" = "Arrow bullet."
))

Result

R Console

RStudio Console

Expected Results

I would expect to see * (or its Unicode equivalent) as bullet for all bullets.

Session Info

─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value
 version  R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14 ucrt)
 os       Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)
 system   x86_64, mingw32
 ui       Rgui
 language EN
 collate  German_Germany.utf8
 ctype    German_Germany.utf8
 tz       Europe/Berlin
 date     2024-12-02
 pandoc   3.2 @ <Path 1>

─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version date (UTC) lib source
 cli           3.6.3   2024-06-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.2)
 rlang         1.1.4   2024-06-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.2)
 sessioninfo   1.2.2   2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)

 [1] <Path 2>
 [2] <Path 3>

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

[lionel-]

cli::cli_abort() should fill in this gap. Does it work as you expect?

[thothal]

Nope, unfortunately same output:

options(cli.user_theme = list(
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-*" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-i" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-x" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet-v" = list(before = "* "),
  ".cli_rlang .bullet->" = list(before = "* ")
))


cli::cli_abort(c(
"The error message.",
  "*" = "Regular bullet.",
  "i" = "Informative bullet.",
  "x" = "Cross bullet.",
  "v" = "Victory bullet.",
  ">" = "Arrow bullet."
))
#> Error:
#> ! The error message.
#> * Regular bullet.
#> i Informative bullet.
#> x Cross bullet.
#> v Victory bullet.
#> > Arrow bullet.

^{Created on 2024-12-06 with reprex v2.1.1}

[lionel-]

I think this is an issue in cli? I just transferred your issue.

[gaborcsardi]

It is not possible to theme the bullets, your only option to customize them is to set the cli.condition_unicode_bullets option to FALSE:
r-lib/cli#411
r-lib/cli#396

[thothal]

Ok, then the docs of rlang::abort needs to be adapted.

[lionel-]

hmm it does look like that it used to be possible to customise them: https://rlang.r-lib.org/reference/topic-condition-customisation.html#changing-the-bullet-symbols

Has something changed in that regard @gaborcsardi ?

[gaborcsardi]

Probably the PR that I linked above.