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Bug 164241

Summary: [console] Coloring/highlighting of text based on e.g. regexps
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Endre Stølsvik <eclipse>
Component: DebugAssignee: Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: bokowski, kretes, markus.kell.r
Version: 3.2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Endre Stølsvik CLA 2006-11-11 18:50:54 EST 
It would be marvelous if it was possible to define a set of regexps (or some other matching-stuff), and assign different colors to these, both foreground, background, and preferrably also font style (italics, bold).

This would make it really easy to catch specific "events" in a heavy log-stream consisting of lots of debug and trace statements. E.g. "Creating instance of bean" when using Spring.
  In addition, one could specify that "DEBUG" and "TRACE" lines had different colors, "ERROR" a red, bold style etc.

This, combined with possibilities specified in bug #164240, would make my coding day a bit easier!
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2007-02-08 17:00:52 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 40705 ***
Comment 2 Endre Stølsvik CLA 2007-02-09 03:07:19 EST 
Can't say that I see the bug 40705 to be a generalization of this bug, but if you say so, and if I can get my log-lines colorized, and if I can get this using a simple GUI to setup, then I'm very happy.

(I must say that this bug and bug 164240 seems to be understood as a request for an hook-point or similar Eclipse-specific programmatic API request  - that's not what I need, at least: I want a configuration screen/part-of-a-screen where I can set this up, within Eclipse proper)
Comment 3 Michael Rennie CLA 2009-04-07 09:20:33 EDT 
*** Bug 271420 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***