Is it possible to write the command you are executing using a color that distinguishes it from the rest of the output?

[frederikhors]

It would be nice to have a way to distinguish the command from the output of the same when there are so many one after the other.

Is it possible to write the command you are executing using a color that distinguishes it from the rest of the output?

[casey]

Commands are echoed in bold, but that doesn't stand out a ton, and I can see how they would get lost in other output.

I wouldn't be opposed to a setting that changed the highlight color, e.g.:

set highlight := blue

foo:
  echo foo

[frederikhors]

Yes, please. On Windows 10 all lines are the same, bold doesn't work.

[frederikhors]

It would be amazing to have something like {{blue}}{{custom_variable}}{{/blue}} too.

[casey]

Yes, please. On Windows 10 all lines are the same, bold doesn't work.

Ah, I didn't know that. If you do just -v RECIPE on Windows, does it print out ===> Running recipe RECIPE… in cyan? I want to make sure that colors aren't just generally broken on Windows.

[frederikhors]

Yep, the cyan works. The bold not.

[hustcer]

It's quite easy to do it in nushell with just, here is a example: https://github.com/hustcer/setup-nu/blob/main/Justfile#L44
you can use (ansi xx) to set colors:
ansi g for green
ansi gb for green and bold, etc.

[frederikhors]

OK. Thank you. But this is impossible for me because:

1. each team member should not be forced to install a new shell;
2. we'll use justfile for CI too; this means native shell only.

[avi-cenna]

It's quite easy to do it in nushell with just, here is a example: https://github.com/hustcer/setup-nu/blob/main/Justfile#L44 you can use (ansi xx) to set colors: ansi g for green ansi gb for green and bold, etc.

This is nice, and I love nushell, but this requires you to explicitly define the colored print messages.

I think rust has some libraries to facilitate colored printing. I'm still a newbie at rust, but maybe I'll try my hand at this issue.