enable console markup (#2122)

* enable console markup

* changelog

* snapshot

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Changed
+
+- Textual will now render strings within renderables (such as tables) as Console Markup by default. You can wrap your text with rich.Text() if you want the original behavior. https://github.com/Textualize/textual/issues/2120
+
 ## [0.16.0] - 2023-03-22
 
 ### Added

src/textual/app.py

@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ class App(Generic[ReturnType], DOMNode):
 
         self.console = Console(
             file=file,
-            markup=False,
+            markup=True,
             highlight=False,
             emoji=False,
             legacy_windows=False,

tests/snapshot_tests/snapshot_apps/table_markup.py

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
+from textual.widgets import Static
+
+from rich.table import Table
+
+
+class TableStaticApp(App):
+    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
+        table = Table("[i green]Foo", "Bar", "baz")
+        table.add_row("Hello [bold magenta]World!", "[i]Italic", "[u]Underline")
+        yield Static(table)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    app = TableStaticApp()
+    app.run()

tests/snapshot_tests/test_snapshots.py

@@ -319,3 +319,7 @@ def test_remove_with_auto_height(snap_compare):
 
 def test_auto_table(snap_compare):
     assert snap_compare(SNAPSHOT_APPS_DIR / "auto-table.py", terminal_size=(120, 40))
+
+
+def test_table_markup(snap_compare):
+    assert snap_compare(SNAPSHOT_APPS_DIR / "table_markup.py")