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Customizable console.group indentation #32947

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@privatenumber

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The indentation width used by console.group is too small for me.

Describe the solution you'd like
Customizable indentation width. Perhaps with a Node flag or env variable as we probably won't want to modify the console.group API.


As a hacky workaround, I'm currently overwriting console.group:

const kGroupIndent = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(console).find(s => s.description === 'kGroupIndent');
const increaseIndentBy = '  ';
const { group, groupEnd } = console;
console.group = function () {
	group.apply(this, arguments);
	this[kGroupIndent] += increaseIndentBy;
};
console.groupEnd = function () {
	groupEnd.apply(this, arguments);
	this[kGroupIndent] = this[kGroupIndent].slice(0, this[kGroupIndent].length - increaseIndentBy.length);
};

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