(03/10/2011 12:55 PM), Chet Ramey wrote: > On 3/10/11 3:49 PM, Micah Cowan wrote: >> (03/10/2011 12:07 PM), Chet Ramey wrote: >>> This doesn't seem like it has to be done in bash. A small program that >>> allocated and opened a pty, ran bash in the pty (or an arbitrary command >>> and arguments specified on the command line), and managed input and output >>> would be acceptable. >>> >>> There look to be a few packages out there that could be adapted for this. >>> Even a pty sniffing program would do the trick. >> >> When both stdout and stderr are the same tty, how do you expect to use >> this method to detect which text should be hilighted and which shouldn't? > > Obviously, you have to separate them. We're all saying the same thing: the > key to making this work is a program that sits in front of make and manages > its input and output.
Sorry; I guess I misinterpreted you to be saying that somehow you accomplish the trick by using ptys, when I suppose you were just saying that this program could provide a pty so that bash is running in a proper terminal (My cheap FIFO hack avoids allocating ptys, which should be fine for running "make" through it, and in the case of FIFOs (but not a spawned shell-cmd idea) should even work with bash and "exec >out 2>err"; but of course won't work on anything that expects its output fds to be ttys, as well as the inputs.) -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
