From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2006-12-08T12:41:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Colored error messages

No, they are possible.  According to the other posters, you can just 
override the Exception/Backtrace class.

Dan

Yu Co wrote:
> Have I understand you correct that colored error message r not possible 
> yet?
> 
> Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
>> On 12/7/06, Suraj Kurapati <snk@gna.org> wrote:
>>> 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
> 
>