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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: "gentoo-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: escape sequences in logs
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 07:59:24
Message-Id: CAHcsgXR2pFSrv6mjH42wbmjrohJ1HJdeawY0Vmwoi1LQPaxNtg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: escape sequences in logs by William Hubbs
1 On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 8:21 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
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4 > mgorny says many people benefit from having escape codes in log
5 > files, but I see no benefit from it, and I don't like going through
6 > build.log because of them. If you load a build.log into an editor, the
7 > escape sequences are basically trash characters that get in the way.
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10 You do know that many eclasses (including the Ruby ones) have a setting
11 that enables/disable color output? I keep it enabled on my system but I've
12 always been disabling it for tinderboxes..
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15 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
16 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/