Re: annoying symbols in logfiles

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

* Joerg Arndt [2016-06-11 17:08]:
> I suggest to use isatty() in the pari code to detect whether the
> output is actually a terminal. 
> If not a terminal, then the escape sequences should be dropped.  This
> is the behavior of many programs offering colorized output, e.g.,
> non-ancient versions of grep.

(We do use isatty() to check whether the session is interactive.) But in
fact, this occurs in a section of code where we already know that we are
outputting to a logfile and not to a terminal.

The current behavior (from 2.7.0 on) when logging (log != 0) is to leave 
control to the user: drop escape sequences from the logfile if log = 1,
emit them if log = 2, and write LaTeX output if log = 3.

See ??default(log).

Cheers,

    K.B.
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