From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-12-08T09:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Colored error messages

On 12/7/06, Suraj Kurapati <snk@gna.org> wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2006, at 14:48 , Yu Co wrote:
> >> Does anyone know whether it is possible to write code which shows me
> >> colored error messages after the validation detects an error?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you have the wrong mailing list, but I have no idea
> > which one you want.
>
> OP probably wanted the Ruby on Rails list.
>
> Nevertheless, I've been pondering lately how effective would the act of
> colorizing error messages and stack traces be against "scroll blindness"
> (when lots of output scrolls by on your terminal and you have to hunt
> around for relevant information)?
>
> It might be interesting to try.
>

In Rubinius, backtraces are instances of the Backtrace class, and they
have methods you can override. Stay tuned, and you could make a
colorized one. Heh