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The console-View within Eclipse is a 'dump' one which handles 3 Streams: out,err,in. It would be an interesting feature when this console would interpret ANSI-Escape-Sequences (at least the following): - Clear-Screen - Cursor movements and placements - Set Background-Color/Text-Color - Set/Reset Bold/Italic font Reason: To write Text-Console oriented Applications (normally in C, but why not in Java) which should later run in a Unix/Linux-Console this should work. Thank you for the effort. Oliver Henning
Not planned for 3.2. Contributions welcome. If someone is willing to write this console, please contact us so we can agree on an initial design .
+1 This would be a great enhancement.
+1 Very usefull!
+1 i would also like to have this feature ;-)
+1 This feature would make eclipse much more attractive to us. We're searching for an IDE for our new hardware test system, but it must have an ANSI compliant terminal.
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As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported. Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.
FYI, there exists an ANSI terminal emulation widget as part of the Target Management project. It just needs to be integrated into an IConsole implementation. See also bug 242373.
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+1 for this!
Why is this bug marked as Resolved/WONTFIX when there is no comment explaining this? Looking at the comments I would expect to see it as open.
(In reply to comment #11) > Why is this bug marked as Resolved/WONTFIX when there is no comment explaining > this? Looking at the comments I would expect to see it as open. (In reply to comment #7) > As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported. > Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.
(In reply to comment #7) > As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported. > Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you. How? Someone who knows how please reopen as suggested. There's currently no way for the UUT to clear the screen and repaint it. ANSI would do that and much more. Start with support for ESC[2J clear screen and then you can add ESC[r,cH cursor position control and other stuff as incremental improvements. Or if ANSI is too difficult, at least the pre-ADM3A basic ^H = LEFT.
I also don’t know how to change the status of this bug report to “re-open” it again. However I have some experience with implementing ANSI control codes in Java. I once adapted a JTextPane to display coloured text based on ANSI colour codes. I would be willing to help but I don’t have the eclipse code set up for development. Perhaps you could point me to a tutorial on how to get that working and I’ll give it a shot.
I opened a new feature request for this issue as I did not see any possibility of reopening this one. Find it here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=438914
(In reply to Martijn Dashorst from comment #15) > I opened a new feature request for this issue as I did not see any > possibility of reopening this one. Find it here: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=438914 I appears I can re-open. And, appears the way to do so is by the "edit" button near top, right on the "status" line ... which seems new. If this works, I'll close bug 438914 as invalid. Disclaimer: by re-opening, I'm not judging the merits, or priority of the bug, and not changing the fact this will take a community contribution, etc.
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(In reply to Michael Rennie from comment #17) > *** Bug 438914 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Anyone interested is trying to implement this should first have a look at the wiki: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Debug/Developers It will help get you up and running with the source and the patch / fix expectations.
For reference, I have solved my ANSI coloring needs by using the Ansi Console plugin by Mihai Nita. http://mihai-nita.net/2013/06/03/eclipse-plugin-ansi-in-console/ https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/ansi-escape-console There is no support for anything other than line styling, but my logback output is nicely highlighted now. :) It would still be a nice feature to have a fully compliant ANSI console, i. e. wrap the Target Management Terminal as an IConsole.
+1 ! I was very surprised when I saw that is not already supported by eclipse. I mean using color for text output begin to be usual. Even windows support it since windows 10 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Windows Of course a good support of ANSI-escape-sequences should be ideal, but this should be done step by step, I propose : 1.The minimal step should be to ignore characters to avoid this kind of crappy output you could face using common library like logback with color enabled. <code> [main] [34mINFO [0;39m [36mo.e.l.s.d.Server[0;39m - Web server started at http://0.0.0.0:8080/. </code> 2. Supporting color, bold/italic should cover most part of the needs. 3. Clear-Screen / Cursor movements and placements is maybe a less common use case. I see there is a lot of external plugin which support it (like grep console or ansi-econsole) - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/233790/colorize-logs-in-eclipse-console - https://mihai-nita.net/2013/06/03/eclipse-plugin-ansi-in-console/ There was also an ANSI terminal emulation widget as part of the Target Management project (I don't know if it is still maintained) So my question why a feature which seems already implemented and requested by community since almost 15 years is not already integrated by default in a great IDE like eclipse ? Is there blocking technical issue ?
We don't have any resource to work on this, If someone can provide a quality patch, we can look into it.
Hi, I am the author of the "ANSI Escape in Console" plugin - https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/ansi-escape-console - https://mihai-nita.net/2013/06/03/eclipse-plugin-ansi-in-console/ - https://github.com/mihnita/ansi-econsole I am thinking about contributing the functionality to the official Eclipse Console. I understand that you have no resources to work on this. But is anyone who is familiar enough with that code / or the Eclipse "philosophy"? To answer some occasional questions, give some early warnings? Probably most of it not programming, but behavior. This might be "a bit intrusive". For instance what should happen if the official console interprets the ANSI escapes and applies styles, but some other plugin registers a LineStyleListener. Who should "win"? And who should "win" between colors from ANSI escapes and the stderr color? Is it enough if this will only handle ANSI escapes for colors, so no clear console, cursor positioning, etc? Basically someone to say "yes, good direction" before I spend days writing code :-) Thanks you, Mihai
(In reply to Mihai Nita from comment #22) > Hi, > > I am the author of the "ANSI Escape in Console" plugin > - https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/ansi-escape-console > - https://mihai-nita.net/2013/06/03/eclipse-plugin-ansi-in-console/ > - https://github.com/mihnita/ansi-econsole > > I am thinking about contributing the functionality to the official Eclipse > Console. > > I understand that you have no resources to work on this. > But is anyone who is familiar enough with that code / or the Eclipse > "philosophy"? > To answer some occasional questions, give some early warnings? > Probably most of it not programming, but behavior. > > This might be "a bit intrusive". > > For instance what should happen if the official console interprets the ANSI > escapes and applies styles, but some other plugin registers a > LineStyleListener. > Who should "win"? > And who should "win" between colors from ANSI escapes and the stderr color? > Is it enough if this will only handle ANSI escapes for colors, so no clear > console, cursor positioning, etc? > > Basically someone to say "yes, good direction" before I spend days writing > code :-) > > Thanks you, > Mihai Yes, We should be able to guide the direction and answer the questions.
(In reply to Mihai Nita from comment #22) > For instance what should happen if the official console interprets the ANSI > escapes and applies styles, but some other plugin registers a > LineStyleListener. > Who should "win"? Because backwards compatibility matters a lot, I think that the LineStyleListener should win (ie override the ANSI colors), so ANSI support wouldn't break existing applications relying on LineStyleListener. Once example is for links (URLs, location in a .java file...), the console shows them with the typical link style using a LineStyleListener (I believe); the decision to show a link here is always more important than some potential style used in the application output for that. > And who should "win" between colors from ANSI escapes and the stderr color? I think default stderr color must remain red. Also, I imagine that the amount of cases where people do ANSI in stderr is very low, so we could simply just ANSI-fy the stderr at the moment. > Is it enough if this will only handle ANSI escapes for colors, so no clear > console, cursor positioning, etc? That would be already great IMO, we don't need to target full ANSI compliance at once, we can do it step by step.
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(In reply to Mihai Nita from comment #22) > Hi, > > I am thinking about contributing the functionality to the official Eclipse > Console. > Do you still plan to work on this? It looks like many people would appreciate it (including myself). If the ANSI console would be integrated into Eclipse it could possible to achieve a tighter integration and it would allow other Eclipse projects to relay on it too (for example the Eclipse Maven integration m2e).
Hi, I would be interested to contribute to this functionality. I developed a preliminary version available in https://github.com/ydaveluy/eclipse.platform.debug/tree/feature/ansi_console If you are interested I can improve the code and create a pull request. Yannick Daveluy
(In reply to Yannick DAVELUY from comment #27) > If you are interested I can improve the code and create a pull request. We're definitely interested! Do you think you could submit this as one or more PRs against the eclipse.platform.debug GitHub repo?
Yes, we are interested. But I want to mention that Mihai Nita, the author of the "Eclipse ANSI Console" plugin plug-in already started some effort towards contributing the Eclipse ANSI Console to the Eclipse-Platform: https://github.com/mihnita/ansi-econsole/issues/70 In order to avoid duplicated work I suggest you two talk to each other and coordinate your work.
My works is inspired from the Eclipse ANSI Console. Here is the PR: https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.debug/pull/40
Sorry guys, I don't think this is cool. Yannick, what are you doing? I have been working on that plugin for 10 years, you forked it 3 weeks ago or so, and want to contribute it to Eclipse yourself? This is (maybe) legal, my project being covered by Apache 2 and EPL 2. But: - if you though to help, you should have asked - I have already stared doing this myself. That is why added EPL 2. For the Eclipse guys: do you want to just have the code as is, or continue to work and get maintenance? And if you would prefer maintenance, then would you rather have if done by the original author, who maintained and improved this for 10 years? Or some random guy who forked it? Also note that the IP is not yet 100% out of the woods. See the end of https://github.com/mihnita/ansi-econsole/issues/70 "For now though I am working to get a clearance from my employer. ... TLDR: I don't expect problems, except for some delay. But I want to make sure I "dot all the i's and cross all the t's" from the legal side. " Thank you very much, Mihai
Moving forward with the integration of the "ANSI Escapes in the Eclipse Console" plugin The progress is tracked by https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.debug/issues/47
