fix: dynamically calculate column widths in interactive update table (#10585)

* fix: dynamically calculate column widths in interactive update table

* test: implement copilot suggestions

* style: change order of functions

close #10316

.changeset/little-kings-invent.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/plugin-commands-installation": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+Fixed `pnpm update --interactive` table breaking with long version strings (e.g., prerelease versions like `7.0.0-dev.20251209.1`) by dynamically calculating column widths instead of using hardcoded values [#10316](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/10316).

pkg-manager/plugin-commands-installation/src/update/getUpdateChoices.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { stripVTControlCharacters } from 'util'
 import colorizeSemverDiff from '@pnpm/colorize-semver-diff'
 import { type OutdatedPackage } from '@pnpm/outdated'
 import semverDiff from '@pnpm/semver-diff'
@@ -148,8 +149,8 @@ function alignColumns (rows: string[][]): string[] {
       columns:
           {
             0: { width: 50, truncate: 100 },
-            1: { width: 15, alignment: 'right' },
-            3: { width: 15 },
+            1: { width: getColumnWidth(rows, 1, 15), alignment: 'right' },
+            3: { width: getColumnWidth(rows, 3, 15) },
             4: { paddingLeft: 2 },
             5: { paddingLeft: 2 },
           },
@@ -157,3 +158,10 @@ function alignColumns (rows: string[][]): string[] {
     }
   ).split('\n')
 }
+
+function getColumnWidth (rows: string[][], columnIndex: number, minWidth: number): number {
+  return rows.reduce((max, row) => {
+    if (row[columnIndex] == null) return max
+    return Math.max(max, stripVTControlCharacters(row[columnIndex]).length)
+  }, minWidth)
+}

pkg-manager/plugin-commands-installation/test/update/getUpdateChoices.test.ts

@@ -139,3 +139,31 @@ test('getUpdateChoices()', () => {
       },
     ])
 })
+
+test('getUpdateChoices() handles long version strings without wrapping', () => {
+  const choices = getUpdateChoices([
+    {
+      alias: '@typescript/native-preview',
+      belongsTo: 'devDependencies' as const,
+      current: '7.0.0-dev.20251209.1',
+      latestManifest: {
+        name: '@typescript/native-preview',
+        version: '7.0.0-dev.20251214.1',
+        homepage: 'https://github.com/nicolo-ribaudo/tc39-proposal-structs',
+      },
+      packageName: '@typescript/native-preview',
+      wanted: '7.0.0-dev.20251209.1',
+    },
+  ], false)
+
+  const dataRow = choices[0].choices[1] as { message: string; value: string; name: string }
+  expect(dataRow).toStrictEqual({
+    message: expect.stringContaining('7.0.0-dev.20251209.1'),
+    value: '@typescript/native-preview',
+    name: '@typescript/native-preview',
+  })
+  // The rendered message must be a single line (no wrapping)
+  expect(dataRow.message).not.toContain('\n')
+  // Both current and target versions must appear in the output
+  expect(dataRow.message).toContain('7.0.0-dev.20251214.1')
+})