v2.6.0

New features

Improved support of ANSI color codes in log patterns

• ConsoleAppender becomes a simple implementation of StreamAppender:
  • Color output now uses ANSI codes on Windows
  • Coloring becomes customizable through the given Formatter or DefaultStyle (see below)
• Better SGR codes support in PatternWriter and DefaultFormatter:
  • New placeholders:
    • %levelColor: configurable through the LogLevelColors property
    • %resetColor: an alias for \e[0m
  • The strings in the pattern, the LogLevels and LogLevelColors properties all support custom SGR codes
  • The %{column:n} placeholder now counts by grapheme clusters
• Added a few example styles in the DefaultStyle class which can be supplied to the ConsoleAppender constructor
  • Current default style for ConsoleAppender: DefaultStyle.Colored.BlueAndWhite (or its plain text version if ColorOutput is false)
  • Current default style for DefaultFormatter: DefaultStyle.NoColor.Simple
  • See the ZeroLog.Examples project or cat the examples.txt file from the artifacts in a console for a preview
• New APIs:
  • DefaultFormatter.MessagePatternWriter to configure colors in the pattern
  • WithoutAnsiColorCodes() in PatternWriter and DefaultFormatter to return a version without color codes
  • Appender.Initialize() which is called before an appender is first used
  • StreamAppender.Formatter changes from init to set
  • New constructors in ConsoleAppender and DefaultFormatter

Analyzers and code fixes

• Added a code fix which lets you change from the simple syntax (_log.Info(...)) to Append syntax (_log.Info().Append(...).Log()).
  This is particularly useful if you want to add structured data to a log message:
  

• Renamed "Use string interpolation" to "Use simple syntax" for consistency. This undoes the previous fix:
  

• Added a [PatternWriter.Pattern] attribute to analyze a literal pattern string on custom string arguments and properties