[ILUG] Re-Directing stdin and stdout at the same time

[Padraig Brady]

Yes this is the idea, but it's not transparent
and hence pretty much useless. To make
it transparent I could do:

1. Make bash write it's prompt (and typed user input)
   to tty instead of stderr. This would allow me to do:
   exec 2> somewhere
   at a prompt which would get all ouput to stderr to
   go to somewhere. Why do commands which need
   to interact with the user read/write stderr rather than
   /dev/tty? Silly in my opinion.

2. Somewhere should probably be another device
    (/dev/stderr.colour ?) which could be handled by
    a colourize module, which for stderr would just
    be to surround data with "\e[31m" ... "\e[0m"

    Somewhere could also just be a FIFO with a daemon
    listening for data on it and writing it suitably colourized
    back to /dev/tty. However this would be asynchronous
    to the running commands and probably not the way to
    go.

    /dev/stdout.colour could also be processed by this
    module, and could highlight URLs and user specified
    regular expressions etc.

    Maybe I should integrate more closely with terminals
    and have colourized mode as well as cooked/raw ?

    OK I'm rambling now....

Padraig.

Paul Jakma wrote:

>hmmm... didn't you ask for:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/hilite
>
>regards,
>