Re: coloring STDERR to terminal

[Atom 'Smasher' <atom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:

> > as i suspected, there doesn't seem to be a really good way to do this...
> > although there are several ways to ~almost~ do it well.
> >
> > that said, i'd like to request a feature for coloring STDERR.
>
> Your first sentence is quite literally true, which makes your feature
> request a little pointless.  It doesn't matter by whom [*] the coloring is
> done; all the problems so far discussed are still present, with the
> possible exception of zsh being able to avoid printing a prompt in the
> middle of the error output.
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you raise some intersting issues... and not being much of a C programmer 
myself i'm not sure how to address them... my logic is that if the 
coloring of STDOUT, STDERR and echoing STDIN is handled ~internally~ by 
the shell, then everything else should (FTMP) work itself out.


        ...atom

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