autotest, unit-diff, and color output?

[Rob Sanheim]

I'm using autotest with all its test driven goodness, and I believe
that uses unit-diff to present a "saner" view of test difference
output.

I'd like to do colorize the output from unit-diff so its similar to
what you see on a changeset on trac, for instance. Does anyone know
anything that can colorize diffs in ruby, or know of a good starting
point? Or at least where to start for outputting color in the
terminal, so I can do "#{color.red} stuff" instead of using control
characters.

thanks,
Rob

 

[Trans]

I'm using autotest with all its test driven goodness, and I believe
that uses unit-diff to present a "saner" view of test difference
output.

I'd like to do colorize the output from unit-diff so its similar to
what you see on a changeset on trac, for instance. Does anyone know
anything that can colorize diffs in ruby, or know of a good starting
point? Or at least where to start for outputting color in the
terminal, so I can do "#{color.red} stuff" instead of using control
characters.

you can try facets' ansicode lib written primarily by Florian Frank.

t.

 

[Eric Hodel]

I'm using autotest with all its test driven goodness, and I believe
that uses unit-diff to present a "saner" view of test difference
output.

It does.

I'd like to do colorize the output from unit-diff so its similar to
what you see on a changeset on trac, for instance. Does anyone know
anything that can colorize diffs in ruby, or know of a good starting
point? Or at least where to start for outputting color in the
terminal, so I can do "#{color.red} stuff" instead of using control
characters.

The easiest way to do this is to write (or find) a color-capable diff
executable. This way you don't have to change unit_diff, just your
path.

 

[Rob Sanheim]

The easiest way to do this is to write (or find) a color-capable diff
executable. This way you don't have to change unit_diff, just your
path.

Thanks for the responses everyone. Some quick google searches didn't
turn up any drop in color replacements for diff, though I did find it
as a feature request submitted for diff, but way to recently for any
code to be written yet.

- Rob

 

[Martin DeMello]

Thanks for the responses everyone. Some quick google searches didn't
turn up any drop in color replacements for diff, though I did find it
as a feature request submitted for diff, but way to recently for any
code to be written yet.

$ esearch colordiff
[ Results for search key : colordiff ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* app-misc/colordiff
Latest version available: 1.0.5-r2
Latest version installed: 1.0.5-r2
Size of downloaded files: 41 kB
Homepage: http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/
Description: Colorizes output of diff
License: GPL-2

martin

 

[Rob Sanheim]

$ esearch colordiff
[ Results for search key : colordiff ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* app-misc/colordiff
Latest version available: 1.0.5-r2
Latest version installed: 1.0.5-r2
Size of downloaded files: 41 kB
Homepage: http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/
Description: Colorizes output of diff
License: GPL-2

martin

Thanks, apparently I should've searched on one word instead of "color diff".

- rob

 

[Martin DeMello]

$ esearch colordiff
[ Results for search key : colordiff ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

Thanks, apparently I should've searched on one word instead of "color diff".

It's easier when you know it's there I found it the first time by
searching for 'diff' in the portage tree

martin