Patch: Colored debug

[Thiago Macieira]

Olivier Goffart wrote:
>Le dimanche 2 septembre 2007, Martin Koller a écrit :
>> On Friday 31 August 2007, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
>> > Is it necessary to put this into the code directly when there are
>> > already standalone tools that do this?  I've been using grc to do
>> > this for years and it does the job quite well and it even has the
>> > ability to add custom configuration files (conf.kdebug perhaps?). 
>> > For example, I use "grc tail -F
>> > /var/log/{maillog,messages,mail/info,mail,warn,acpid}&" and end up
>> > with a very nicely-colorized output shown here:
>> > http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1284102997&size=o
>> >
>> > Or am I missing something simple?
>>
>> I also think that postprocessing is a better way as you often might
>> need to check a logfile later via an editor to see what happened, and
>> if the logfile contains some ESC sequences, I don't think that it is
>> easy to read.
>
>Coloring is only activated if you are using a tty.
>If it is saved into a logfile, coloring is simply disabled.

Please make colouring off by default. An environment variable enables it, 
like with QTest (QTEST_COLORED=1).

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