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Re: New log file header
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Takuma Murakami wrote:
> > > 2. Could you add a time-stamp at beginning of each line ?
> > > I tried to correspond the log messages with external actions (i.e.
> > > copy/paste and Emacs errors) and the time stamp could help.
> >
> > That is an interesting idea. I think we can do something like that
> > because we have a single "ErrorF" function that handles printing the log
> > messages. We should be able to modify this one function to get
> > timestamps on all entries... but it may not look too pretty since it
> > will mess with multiple-line error messages that come from other parts
> > of the source code. If those lines are printed with multiple ErrorF
> > calls, then things will line up correctly. However, if they are printed
> > with a single call to ErrorF with multiple "\n"'s, then it may not look
> > so good. Of course, we could substitute each "\n" in the format string
> > (except for the last) with "\n%TIME%", which would help to keep things
> > aligned.
> >
> > I dunno... I will have to think about this a bit.
>
> In my humble opinion, time stamps are very good for debugging
> but might be slightly too verbose for average users. Additionally
> it could reduce readability of log files.
>
> I think a kind of log level (verbosity level) is desired so
> that XWiin will print time stamps if -verbose or -debug flag
> is specified. However I can't contribute right now so I honor
> implementor's choice.
There is already a -loglevel switch. All logfunction (ErrorF, winErrorVerb ...)
will end up in winMsg (AFAIR). You can add the timestamp there. currently the
default loglevel is 2 (afair). Maybe loglevel 3 or 4 is a good choice for
adding the timestamp.
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