making STDERR more visible

[vermaden]

Interesting 'mod' for making STDERR more visible: https://github.com/sickill/stderred

 

[fonz]

Isn't it a bad idea to tie userland shared libs into syscalls?

I like the idea a lot, but I don't think this is the way to do it.

Fonz

 

[Pushrod]

I've wanted that feature since forever ago plus one day.

 

[fluca1978]

Interesting idea, but I don't think it should be implemented as userland library. Isn't this almost equivalent to use a wrapper like hilite or to modify the default shell for a user?

 

[vermaden]

If You use ZSH shell, then this line in ~/.zshrc seems to do even better job.

[CMD=""]exec 2>>( while read X; do print "\e[91m${X}\e[0m" > /dev/tty; done & )[/CMD]

 

[wblock@]

Seems like you could use named pipes and just show stderr in a different window. But I haven't tried it.

 

[fluca1978]

I guess the adoption of tee or other solutions to redirect stderr is always a valid point.