Highlight matching regex pattern in pager, via option color-pager-regex#1249
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…gex` Any line matching the regex will be drawn in a new color ↔ `color-match`. Useful to make compiler warnings easy visible.
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Hi, |
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Once again you reinvent the wheel, Tig already has a coloring engine that can be extended to support regular expressions... Look for the updated syntax in the commit message or in tigrc.5.adoc. |
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The new support is great, I was able to colorize output of my new It allows to create project and subproject file lists that can be opened from However, it seems that the color always spans whole line. Would it be hard to colorize different parts of lines in different color? |
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When defining colors, strings of the form "/.../" will be interpreted as regular expressions. E.g. color "/([^:]+):([0-9]+):(|([0-9]+):)[ \t]+(note|warning|error): (.*)(\[-W([a-zA-Z0-8_-]+)\]|)/" yellow default bold Closes jonas#1249 Suggested-by: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
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A third attempt after #1223 to commit flexible pager view output highlighter.
Any line matching the regex given by option
color_pager_regexwill be drawn in a new color ↔color-match. The option is empty by default, as requested. The color is magenta by default.Example:
Typically useful to make compiler warnings easy visible.