Custom line-breaks in minted environment

Question

I'm using the minted package for my code listings. I'd like to customize the line-breaks instead of using the breaklines option that does the line-breaking automatically. Unfortunately I haven't found a proper solution yet. I also experimented with escapeinside without any success. :(

So in my case I have the following minted environment:

\begin{minted}[bgcolor=bg, breaklines]{bash}  
docker run -it --net rc --name hubot -e ROCKETCHAT_URL=rocketchat.rc:3000 -e ROCKETCHAT_ROOM='' -e LISTEN_ON_ALL_PUBLIC=true -e ROCKETCHAT_USER=<username> -e ROCKETCHAT_PASSWORD=<password> -e ROCKETCHAT_AUTH=password -e BOT_NAME=bot -e EXTERNAL_SCRIPTS=hubot-pugme,hubot-help,hubot-diagnostics rocketchat/hubot-rocketchat
\end{minted}

And I'd like to set line-breaks manually... maybe by adding a ? or some other token at the position I want to have the line break. Is this possible or do you have other suggestions?

Answer 1

The example below should give you what you want, or at least a good place to start. This uses breaklines to enable line breaking, but disables breaking at spaces by using showspaces to enable a custom space-replacement character, and then setting that to a non-breaking space. Currently, ? becomes \linebreak. Depending on how you use this, it might be worth looking into \allowbreak.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{minted}

\AtBeginEnvironment{minted}{%
  \catcode`?\active
  \begingroup\lccode`~=`\?\lowercase{\endgroup\def~{\linebreak}}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{minted}[breaklines, showspaces, space=~]{bash}  
docker run -it --net rc --name hubot ?-e ROCKETCHAT_URL=rocketchat.rc:3000 ?-e ROCKETCHAT_ROOM='' ?-e LISTEN_ON_ALL_PUBLIC=true -e ROCKETCHAT_USER=<username> ?-e ROCKETCHAT_PASSWORD=<password> ?-e ROCKETCHAT_AUTH=password ?-e BOT_NAME=bot ?-e EXTERNAL_SCRIPTS=hubot-pugme,hubot-help,hubot-diagnostics ?rocketchat/hubot-rocketchat
\end{minted}

\end{document}