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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch: Colored debug
From:       Olivier Goffart <ogoffart () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-09-02 21:33:04
Message-ID: 200709022333.08305.ogoffart () kde ! org
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Le dimanche 2 septembre 2007, Martin Koller a écrit  :
> On Friday 31 August 2007, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > Is it necessary to put this into the code directly when there are already
> > standalone tools that do this?  I've been using grc to do this for years
> > and it does the job quite well and it even has the ability to add custom
> > configuration files (conf.kdebug perhaps?).  For example, I use "grc tail
> > -F /var/log/{maillog,messages,mail/info,mail,warn,acpid}&" and end up
> > with a very nicely-colorized output shown here:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1284102997&size=o
> >
> > Or am I missing something simple?
>
> I also think that postprocessing is a better way as you often might need to
> check a logfile later via an editor to see what happened, and if the
> logfile contains some ESC sequences, I don't think that it is easy to read.

Coloring is only activated if you are using a tty.
If it is saved into a logfile, coloring is simply disabled.

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