From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: coloring STDERR to terminal
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:15:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0407202008240.14830@toltec.zanshin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040720233037.GI28269@blorf.net>
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:15:07PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > yet without mixing the result any differently than it would have been
> > mixed if the writers of all those inputs had instead written directly
> > to that single output.
>
> It's impossible with a single tty (or pty), but if stdout and stderr
> each had their own pty, then a program could merge the two ptys to the
> real terminal, coloring the stderr one.
Yes, I said something about that before. This is as close as you can get
to what was asked for, but (a) it's still not precisely the same [*] as if
both streams went directly to a single TTY, and (b) you can't invoke it
blindly/automatically on every spawned command, because it will play havoc
with any text editor or other fullscreen UI.
[*] E.g. your sample program always writes stdout first and then stderr,
even when both are found to be available by the same call to select().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-21 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-27 23:22 Atom 'Smasher'
2004-06-28 0:06 ` ari
2004-06-28 0:36 ` Atom 'Smasher'
2004-06-29 15:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-06-29 16:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2004-06-29 17:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-06-30 7:09 ` Vincent Lefevre
2004-06-30 10:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-06-30 11:43 ` Vincent Lefevre
2004-06-30 12:01 ` Vincent Lefevre
2004-06-30 16:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-07-01 18:14 ` Vincent Lefevre
2004-07-02 0:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-07-02 12:42 ` Vincent Lefevre
2004-07-02 21:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-07-20 9:10 ` Atom 'Smasher'
2004-07-20 16:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-07-20 19:27 ` Atom 'Smasher'
2004-07-20 21:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-07-20 23:30 ` Wayne Davison
2004-07-21 3:15 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2004-07-21 6:23 ` Wayne Davison
2004-07-21 7:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-07-21 13:19 ` Vincent Lefevre
2004-07-30 11:50 ` Andy Spiegl
2004-07-30 23:44 ` Vincent Lefevre
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