From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Idea: "guix log" Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:50:14 +0100 Message-ID: <878tq991w9.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87bmv8krxe.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <878tqcdk5b.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTV5j-0007Co-JF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:50:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTV5i-00059r-8B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:50:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <878tqcdk5b.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > ng0 skribis: > >> Next tool, next idea (the guix log family): A log viewer. Gentoo >> has more than one. The way we currently save logs could be more >> human friendly. It doesn't need a restructuring of the folders >> (yes I know about the switch for logfiles) but we could have >> something similar to https://github.com/gentoo/elogv which >> provides an easy way to read thelogs (nothing more). In addition >> to that, our log reader could extract the log and save it if >> requested to do so. > > ‘guix-build-log-mode’ in Emacs does that and it’s awesome. We could > have a log colorizing & navigation tool outside of Emacs, though that’s > probably quite a bit of work. Or we could provide a wrapper around Emacs that opens the log file and loads “guix-build-log-mode” for all those who still don’t use Emacs regularly. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net