On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:39:50PM +0200, Wael Nasreddine <wael@siemens-mobiles.org> wrote:
I don't know if you have discussed this before, any chance to see color support to pacman's output? i really loved the way pacman does the download when adding "ilovecandy" to /etc/pacman.conf :D, so I
if you have ilovecandy in pacman.conf, then why not? probably it should be disabled by default, it can cause problems on some weird terminals
tried to add some colors but since the string length is checked in pm_fprintf function, it may break the message, I tried doing it in
you mean the 9 chars limit? see this: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2006-May/000313.html if that's the problem, then just use the patch, and it'll go away :)
another way (by simply adding an extra char *color to pm_fprintf function) but I am not a C++ programer so i failed specially about
pacman is written in C, not in C++
adding strings together (color + str + CLEAR) to fprintf, anyone interresting in doing it ?
the coding part, yes. but i don't want to figure out what colors looks nice :) ok, probably red for errors, but the others.. example: $ LANG= LC_ALL= sudo pacman -Sy :: Synchronizing package databases... then you can say echo -e "\e[01;36m::\e[0m \e[01mSynchronizing package databases...\e[0m" would be nicer. that way you don't have to do any coding and i don't have to figure out the colors :) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org