Absolutely agree .. colour can and does make a huge difference. I think (there may be independent inventions) that I invented syntax colouring in LEXX (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEXX_(text_editor) ). But since colour terminals had only just became available in 1985 ...
Colouring trace output differently for different threads is definitely something to explore! Mike > > Like Chip (I suspect), I'm beginning to think that this is > > outside the > > domain of the language and more suited to some external > > 'specialised tool' > > .... or just an option to write the trace to a file .. that is, not > > expected to be seen by humans but more likely processed by > a program > > to be presented in some useful way to the human. > > That sounds like a good idea to me. Having looked at some of > the examples posted in this discussion, it seems to me that > one thing that would make a massive contribution to reading > such traces would be being able to have lines from specific > threads (or even more granular than that) displayed in > different colours. > > A text editor that entirely uses regexes to identify > character strings or lines which should be displayed in > various colours might be a convenient way to achieve that. > > > I still mainly use Kedit for editing rexx source etc. Its > syntax colouring isn't > able to cope with log lines, but the fact that it can be > scripted (in "Kexx") > makes it a winner for me. > > I noticed a while ago that EditPadPro - > https://www.editpadpro.com - does > have regex-based colouring, and have been thinking about > installing that > JUST to use as a file browser, for application debug logs etc. > > > [I used to use an editor named StrongED [under Risc OS] which > had flexible > colouring, able to be used on application-specific log files > etc & once wrote > an enhanced version of a spam-filtering application where > rules were shown > in colours in rule definitions, & corresponding colours were > used when one > looked at the logs showing rules taking actions on emails, > provided a user > was using StrongED and the config files I provided. > > Some parts of the application GUI also optionally used the > same colours - > which went against the prevailing OS standards for how GUI > panes should > look. It was techincally possible to use colours, but no > part of the OS or > any other application I'd ever seen actually did so. I > suppose that if all > applications had done so, each in their own way, without that > being able > to be customised in a way that made sense to each user, > desktops would > have looked awful. But on the other hand, sensible/restrained use of > colour added a lot of extra meaning in that application.) > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
