How to configure linebreaks?

[Quietscher]

Short question, instead of overly long parsed lines i would like to see linebreaks.

Example:
Currently it is like this:
[WRN] Failed to export TraceRequestMarshalers. The request could not be executed. Full error message: Connection refused: otel-collector/10.98.241.187:4317 › timestamp=2025-12-09T03:01:54.120436443Z sequence=1317 loggerClassName=org.jboss.logmanager.Logger loggerName=io.quarkus.opentelemetry.runtime.exporter.otlp.sender.VertxGrpcSender threadName=vert.x-eventloop-thread-1 threadId=29 ndc="" hostName=qf4m9 processName=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk-21.0.7.0.6-1.el8.x86_64/bin/java processId=1

I want to have it like this:
[WRN] Failed to export TraceRequestMarshalers. The request could not be executed. Full error message: Connection refused: otel-collector/10.98.241.187:4317
[WRN] timestamp=2025-12-09T03:01:54.120436443Z sequence=1317
[WRN] loggerClassName=org.jboss.logmanager.Logger
[WRN] loggerName=io.quarkus.opentelemetry.runtime.exporter.otlp.sender.VertxGrpcSender threadName=vert.x-eventloop-thread-1
[WRN] threadId=29 ndc=""
[WRN] hostName=qf4m9
[WRN] processName=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk-21.0.7.0.6-1.el8.x86_64/bin/java processId=1

or similar.
thats way more readable in large logs.

How do I achieve this?

[pamburus]

It is not currently possible.

There was a feature for this that was almost implemented, but it ended up being too complicated. I will have to simplify it first.
You can check it out in #320. Unfortunately, the pull request is significantly outdated.

I plan to finish the feature someday, but for now, I have prioritized refactoring the internal model, which I hope to finish in a few months. After that, I will probably return to this.

In the meantime, I will try to rebase the feature branch. Hopefully, that won't take too long.

[pamburus]

The feature branch in #320 has been rebased and is ready for you to try.

However, I highly recommend looking into the hide feature (using --hide / -h in the CLI or hide in the config). I find this to be a much better way to preserve readability. Breaking long messages into multiple lines reduces information density, forcing you to scroll significantly more to view the same number of entries. If a log entry has a lot of fields, the split lines can fill the whole view, meaning only 1 or 2 entries fit on the screen at once. Usually there is no need in all these fields simultaneously, it is better practice to hide unimportant or redundant fields to keep the output focused.

[pamburus]

Try hl -x always.
It should help with this case.

[Quietscher]

ah thank you!