Hey, On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 10:12 +0000, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Philip Withnall <phi...@tecnocode.co. > uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’ve got a feature request for strace: optional coloured output, > > which > > would use ANSI escape sequences (on supported terminals) to > > embolden > > and colourise various bits of the strace output to make it easier > > to > > read. Some suggestions for the highlighting: > > • De-emphasise PIDs at the start of a line by putting them in grey > > • Emphasise syscall names by emboldening them > > • Emphasise error return values by colouring them red > > > > If piping through to another program, or running on a terminal > > which > > doesn’t support them, the escape sequences should not be used. > > As it stands, implementation of this feature whould tackle quite an > amount of code, since printing routines are spread accross decoders. > It could be implemented partially for preamles, return codes and some > types (like UIDs), but not for the structure field names and inline > comments, for example. > > Personally, I would hope that the structured output conversion would > be finalized and merged before the thermal death of the Universe, and > see this feature being implemented there, since in this case code > changes would be localised in the legacy formatter. > > Otherwise, it could be implemented partially (for some preamble bits > and return values) now and decoder-related part later.
OK, that makes sense. If I ever manage to find a free evening, I’ll see if I can work on it. But that’s pretty unlikely. Philip
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