[pacman-dev] Colour support in pacman!

[Christian Hesse]

Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> on Tue, 2013/03/05 10:31:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 04:19:13PM +0100, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Simon Gomizelj <simongmzlj at gmail.com> on Mon, 2013/03/04 17:49:
> > > I believe I addressed all the criticisms thus far.
> > > 
> > > I'll just share this instead of spamming the mailing list with yet
> > > another patchset.
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/vodik/pacman/compare/5770425...master
> > 
> > Tested your patches, works really well so far.
> > 
> > I would like pacman to color the actions it performs. Messages printed by
> > pre_*() and post_*() functions would be a lot more visible then.
> > 
> > The attached patch is just a "quick and dirty proof of concept.
> 
> I'm not really in favor of doing this. We're already labelling output in
> the log file which makes it stand out quite well on its own. I don't
> think we need to do this as well on terminal output.

Ah, did not notice that... Really nice!
(I would still see it highlighted on the terminal, but I am happy that way,
too. ;)
-- 
main(a){char*c=/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */"B?IJj;MEH"
"CX:;",b;for(a/*    Chris           get my mail address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*               gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig    */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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