Hi. First off, this isn't a bug report so much as a feature request.
I do a lot of cross-compilation of linux and various packages for embedded distros. Version bumps are always perilous because cross-compilation often suffers regression. The problem is that a lot of the regressions don't cause the build to fail... it just generates invalid results. Sometimes (not often but sometimes) an innocuous clue with will buried deep within thousands (or tends of thousands) of lines of "make all" output. And by output, I mean STDERR. My request is simple. Using termcap/ncurses info (which you need anyway for the readline stuff), it would be nice to have the option of running commands in a pseudo-tty and then bracketing the output from STDERR with <highlight on>...<highlight off>. Of course, that also implies that your writes to wherever STDERR eventually goes are atomic and won't be interspersed with output from STDOUT. I'll let someone more intimate with the particulars of stdio and tty drivers and line disciplines figure that bit out. This would be nice because it would allow one to quickly identify and isolate potentially detrimental error messages from mundane but profuse output that logs commands being invoked, etc. Does this seem doable? Thanks, -Philip
