Re: coloring the logfile

[Hans van der Meer <havdmeer@ziggo.nl>]

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> On 29/08/19 5:35 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> This will need engine support but is in principle dead easy.

So it seems doable if someone is willing to provide the engine support. I sincerely hope it will be done. With many thanks, of course.

dr. Hans van der Meer


> On 29 Aug 2019, at 09:39, Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 29/08/19 5:35 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 2019-08-28 um 21:54 schrieb Hans van der Meer <havdmeer@ziggo.nl>:
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to force lines  written in the log with \writestatus to have a specific color? The log can be very substantial and it would be nice to have some lines brought to attention by a different color.
>> 
>> As a text file, the log can’t have colors.
>> 
>> Only the output to your terminal could have ANSI color codes.
>> I’d welcome this, too, but then we need additional configuration, color breaks easily on some shells, the feature should adhere to the usual shell variables etc. Don’t know it it would be worth the effort.
> 
> This will need engine support but is in principle dead easy.
> 
> #include <unistd.h>
> 
> if (isatty(fileno(stdout))) {
>    // color
> } else {
>    // no color
> }
> 
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