Logging stuff

Posted by Khamura on Sat 13 Oct 2001 08:05 AM — 4 posts, 15,854 views.

Khamura Germany Sat 13 Oct 2001 08:05 AM #0

I have a couple of "problems" I wasn't able to figure out on my own until now, so I decided to ask here.

I have the habit of keeping my logs in the exact same style as the MU* they are logged from (which is why I'm so happy about the HTML color logging option). Now, in order to keep all the nifty spacing intact, I would have to log each line of output as <pre> text; that, however, would mean that lines won't get wrapped by the browser. On the other hand, if I log with Courier New, it messes with the spaces. Hence the question:

Is there a way to have the log wrap at the exact same point as the original output (80 in my case)?

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 13 Oct 2001 09:25 AM #1

You raise an interesting point.

At present logs discard newlines, so that a paragraph is still a paragraph (eg. in a word processor) and not arbitrarily wrapped at column 80.

I don't think there is an easy way to solve that problem at present. I might have to add an option to log "as is", if that is what you want.

Khamura Germany Sat 13 Oct 2001 10:50 AM #2

That would indeed help to solve it. It is a pain in the ass^H^H^Hneck, having to insert linebreaks manually in <pre>, or working with tabs and   in normal Courier New HTML just to get the spacing right. :)

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 13 Oct 2001 09:44 PM #3

OK, I have added that as suggestion #413.