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When Eclipse logs to the output window, lines that have something like com.mydomain.foo.java:123 in them have hyperlinks applied to them. Netbeans does something similar, however Eclipse will make a hyperlink only on the 'com.mydomain.foo.java:123". Netbeans makes the entire a hyperlink. Now that the algorithm to find a hyperlink is more lenient (Issue 153057), I am going to have lots of hyperlinks. This will make it harder to pick out the stack traces. However, if the hyperlink just comprised of the class and line number, it would be easy to find the stack traces by its pattern. (In a stack trace, all the hyperlinks will more or less line up, while in my debug messages they will not. If you really want to go crazy, stack traces could be recognized by the "\tat " and could be colored red, while the hyperlink portion of the line would be colored blue like the rest of the hyperlinks. This would make it even easier to spot. BTW, blue is the most common color for hyperlinks and I think sticking with that would be a good idea. They are blue in the editor.
Here is a sample of one of my log messages: 01:37:28[00002:04] dsi.joint.io.ApacheDConnection$MyRequestEntity.writeRequest(ApacheDConnection.java:238)Sent data to servlet I opened my project in eclipse and the only underlined part was the part in the parentheses "ApacheDConnection.java:238" This is very nice. It is blue (which indicates a link), and does not create a lot of screen clutter by underlining the entire FQN. I would suggest this model. This would also allow the main color of the text to show more. So if red was desired for stack traces, black for something else, ... the line would be mostly that color. But ALL hyperlinks would be in blue.
Yes, this would be preferable if it is possible to implement.
Fixed by core-main #c2da2c80f723
No, the API was implemented. It is not yet used.
I expected there will be a separate issue for ant.
Well 168898 was the separate issue for the API.
core-main #6aa2ecd324b5 Due to limitations in the API, the coloration is not yet quite what you want: the hyperlinks are always blue (well this is what mclaassen wants but not what our UI specs request), and non-hyperlinked portions of stack trace lines are black rather than red as you would expect for stderr.
Tomas pointed me to the way to correct the coloration problem.
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200908051401* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/6aa2ecd324b5 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #167386: hyperlink just those portions of a line which correspond to the file and line number.
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200908060201* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/761e59c99a63 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #167386 continued: t_h says use of IOColors is unnecessary.