Color in progress_message

[calebmer]

Description of the problem / feature request:

As a rule author, progress_message in ctx.actions.run() is one of my primary interfaces with a user of my rule. Perhaps progress_message is the primary interface for users of Bazel in general who don’t spend much time changing build configuration.

Currently, it appears like I can only write plain text for progress_message which isn’t very helpful if I’d like to draw user’s attention to the important parts of the message.

Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

I’d like, specifically, to bold parts of the progress message that are important and dim parts that are less important.

For example in “Compiling Rust crate proc-macro2” I’d like to bold “proc-macro2” for “Compiling Rust crate proc-macro2”.

I’d like the coloring mechanism to hook into Bazel’s own color option so it can be disabled for shell’s that don’t support color.

[sgowroji]

Hi there! We're doing a clean up of old issues and will be closing this one. Please reopen if you’d like to discuss anything further. We’ll respond as soon as we have the bandwidth/resources to do so.

[brentleyjones]

I would love this feature as well. Can we reopen it?