On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Zac Pullar-Strecker <zac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commands like go run, go build and go test amoung others should have
> coloured output when an error occurs. it would make reading stack traces a
> lot easier. I personally use the go run tool a lot during development
> because I have no reason to keep a binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory when
> it's likely to change in the next 5 minutes.
>
> github.com/fatih/color & github.com/kortschak/ct are os agnostic (Unix &
> Windows,) packages for ANSI escape codes.
> It would make sense to do this with a flag -c or -color and anyone who
> wanted it perminantly could alias it.
> I'm relatively new to the community so I wanted to post it here before
> creating an issue on github. Are there any issues with doing this?

I think this is unlikely to be accepted.

Much more plausible would be a go-gettable colorizing filter that you
can apply to the go tool output.  Then you could run a shell script
that pipes go through that filter.

Ian

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