On 2004-07-30 13:50:24 +0200, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> As you can see the question doesn't appear at all!

AFAIK, this is due to the "read line", that waits for a whole line.
When I reimplemented stderr coloring, I fixed that (and other problems
too) by writing a small C program "colorize" (attached) instead of zsh
code.

So, you should do the following:

  exec 2>>(colorize `tput bold; tput setaf 1` `tput sgr0` > /dev/tty &)

for instance, by putting that in your zshrc.

But I no longer use it since too many programs use stderr for things
other than error or warning messages, and sometimes not in a consistent
way. I don't know why, perhaps because developpers think that stderr
means tty (in case stdout is redirected); but if they want to write to
the tty, they should really do it instead of using stderr.

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