Can I add console-level padding?

[rlaphoenix]

I want my console.log's, console.print's, and console.status calls all padded 5 chars on the left and right. I have managed to get it to work for console.log by overriding the _log_render of the Console and adding padding on the Table.grid of the LogRenderer. For console.status I have overridden it with the following:

status_renderable = super().status(
    status=status,
    spinner=spinner,
    spinner_style=spinner_style,
    speed=speed,
    refresh_per_second=refresh_per_second
)

if pad:
    top, right, bottom, left = Padding.unpack(pad)

    renderable_width = len(status_renderable.status)
    spinner_width = len(status_renderable.renderable.text)
    status_width = spinner_width + renderable_width

    available_width = self.width - status_width
    if available_width > right:
        # fill up the available width with padding to apply bg color
        right = available_width - right

    padding = Padding(
        status_renderable,
        (top, right, bottom, left)
    )

    return Live(
        padding,
        console=self,
        transient=True
    )

return status_renderable

However, I have not found an ample solution for print, as if I do a similar trick by wrapping all objects with Padding(), it seems to affect Status's transient properties. It would randomly be transient and non-transient, seemingly depending on how fast it finished the status, or rather how little it refreshed. Or, it will not be transient ever, if the terminal width is not greater than or equal to the console.width by two times, for some reason.

To be clear on what I'm asking for, I want to be able to prepend 5 chars of blank (with on color ANSI codes) on the left and right of the entire console. E.g., if you do console.print("Hello World") with a theme that sets none to red on white it should render as Hello World with the color red, and the background as white, for everything including the whitespace.

[patrick91]

This is what I'm doing at the moment, but it doesn't work for everything:

class ConsoleWithPadding(Console):
    def print(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().print(Padding(*args, (0, 2)), **kwargs)