(03/10/2011 11:42 AM), Philip Prindeville wrote: > 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>.
This doesn't strike me as remotely within the domain of responsibilities that should belong to bash, mainly because: 1. it has nothing to do with anything that shells normally do. 2. putting it in bash specifically, would rob other, non-bash related commands, the possibility of having such a feature. It wouldn't be difficult to write as a separate program, which is really how this should be handled. You could redirect a pipeline's STDOUT and STDERR to individual named pipes (FIFOs), and have a separate program read from both pipes, inserting highlights around any data it copies from the STDERR pipe. -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
