Re: Coloring error and warning messages in the gui console

[Pantxo]

Torsten-3 wrote
> I am currently working on possible ways to color error and warning
> messages in the gui console window. The unix based terminal offers
> filters for highlighting matched "hotspots". Unfortunately, the elements
> painted for highlighting lead to ugly artefacts when scrolling.
> Consequently, this filter method is currently only used for underlining
> clickable links (files for opening in the editor or urls) when the mouse
> cursor is hovering over them.
> 
> For the text colors of error and warning messages I would like to insert
> suitable escape sequences into the message strings as implemented in the
> patch attached to comment #9 of bug #35619
> (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35619#comment9)
> Before pushing this patch, I would like to know whether there are any
> objections against changing one of octaves core files (error.cc) only
> for "cosmetic" reasons.
> 
> Best,
> Torsten

Hi,

Lachlan had proposed to go this route in a patch he proposed. You may want
to look at JWE's answer there:
https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?9024

Pantxo



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