feat(output): plain/ASCII output mode for hooks & CI#318
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Op output uses ⚠/✓/✗/ℹ glyphs — nice UX for the model, a liability for anything that parses output without UTF-8/locale guarantees (git hooks, grep, CI on a non-UTF-8 console). A C/POSIX-locale grep won't match a multibyte glyph, and a cp1252 console crashes with UnicodeEncodeError. Add --plain (and SUPERTOOL_PLAIN=1) emitting ASCII-only markers [WARN]/[OK]/[FAIL]/[INFO]. Glyphs route through a central mark() helper (supertool.py) / _mark() (presets/git/diff.py) honouring plain mode, so call sites don't each carry a plain branch. Stable ASCII section keys (Red flags in added lines, Forbidden paths, ...) stay intact for grepping. The --plain flag exports SUPERTOOL_PLAIN=1 so preset ops (subprocesses) inherit it. Stdout/stderr are reconfigured to UTF-8 at startup as cheap insurance — a stray glyph never crashes the process, even in plain mode. Default (rich) output is unchanged. Also fixes a latent coupling: the validator rollback trigger matched the literal ✗ in render output; it now matches via mark() so rollback still fires in plain mode. Tests: plain mode emits ASCII; env var honoured; --plain consumed + propagated; default keeps glyphs; reconfigure tolerates missing/erroring streams. Co-Authored-By: Max <noreply>
test_default_mode_keeps_glyphs failed on all 4 Windows pythons: `assert "⚠" in out` saw mojibake (`\xe2š\xa0`) instead of ⚠. diff.py already reconfigures its stdout to UTF-8 before printing, so the child emits correct UTF-8 bytes (e2 9a a0 for ⚠). The break was on the parent side: subprocess.run(text=True) decodes with the platform default, which on Windows is cp1252 — turning e2 9a a0 into "âš\xa0". Force encoding="utf-8" in the test harness so the child's UTF-8 round-trips on every platform. Default (rich) and plain (ASCII) behavior unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Max <noreply>
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…nc (#321) Bump 0.18.1 → 0.19.0 across supertool.py, plugin.json, and the stale pyproject.toml (was 0.14.0). Consolidate the [Unreleased] entries into a [0.19.0] section covering all eight PRs merged this cycle (#311–#318); five of them shipped with no CHANGELOG entry. Backfill the doc gaps the merged PRs left: - docs/validators.md: validate list form + @syntax filter (#316) - docs/presets/git.md: git-commit Co-Authored-By trailer, configurable via .supertool.json ops.git-commit.coauthor / SUPERTOOL_COAUTHOR (#315) - .supertool.example.json: validate list-form/@syntax syntax, a git-commit/coauthor override example, and three builtin ops that were never in the reference at all — replace, replace_dry, vim.
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Closes #308
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--plainflag +SUPERTOOL_PLAIN=1env → ASCII output ([WARN]/[OK]for ⚠/✓) via centralmark()map._reconfigure_stdout_utf8()at startup so ops never crash on non-UTF-8 consoles (covers stderr in presets too)._plain()/_mark()in diff.py.Tests
new test_plain_mode.py (13) + 3 git-diff plain tests. Cov 87.71%. Default (glyph) output unchanged.
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