Alright. Any pointers as to where to start and whether mrxvt already has a regexp engine or dependency on a third-party lib to do the pattern matching?
Charles On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Gautam Iyer <gi1...@stanford.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:46:06PM +0000, Charles Acknin wrote: > >> I often run extremely verbose programs or large compilations in >> parallel (read make -j) and it's hard to catch the errors or other >> interesting information in such a large volume of characters. I'm >> looking for an mrxvt feature that could highlight patterns in the >> scrollback buffer, probably like colorgcc or as an alternative to the >> macro that fires up vim with the current scrollback buffer, but >> built-in mrxvt (i.e. for any command run inside the terminal) without >> the need of wrappers or external tools. >> >> Is this something that currently exists or do I have to hack it >> myself? :-) > > This doesn't exist currently, but we'd be very happy if you hacked it. > Support for highlighting regexp's would also be useful for catching > URL's say. This could easily be combined with a macro (or a Ctrl-Click) > that does something with the highlighted region under the cursor (e.g. > opens firefox on it). > > As of now the only thing you can do is to open the scroll back buffer in > your program of choice, in a new tab (e.g. colorgcc | less). > > GI > > -- > Alternative definitions of terms from Math Lectures: > IT CAN EASILY BE SHOWN: Even you, in your finite wisdom, should be able > to prove this without me holding your hand. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Materm-devel mailing list > Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel > mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
