Re: Idea: "guix log"

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> ng0 <address@hidden> 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.

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Ricardo

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