On 04/30/2013 01:22 PM, Tim Murphy wrote: > I know this isn't going to go down all that well, but I really think the > output should be annotated in such a way that colourisation could be > applied to the log file after a build has already finished. > While this might (underline "might" ;-) be an interesting feature, it is orthogonal to the issue under question -- that is, the need to retain the ability to automatically determine whether the output is going to a tty or a "log file" (that is, any file that is not a tty).
> e..g you load a makefile into VIM - it can colourise it. Or a bit of C > source code. Why not the log of a build you did yesteday? It's still very > nice to be able to distinguish things by colour later on. > And notice that, currently, such a post-run colorization is easy to obtain, if you are only interested in having it working 99% of the time: just color a leading "PASS:" string in green, a leading "FAIL:" in red, e leading "SKIP:" in blue, etc. Regards, Stefano _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
