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JetBrains / ideolog

Interactive viewer for '.log' files.
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This plugin is too difficult to use #101

Closed glensc closed 6 months ago

glensc commented 3 years ago
  1. I open log
  2. It says format not supported
  3. There's a hint to configure log formats

so far so good

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but then some advanced dialog pops up:

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and I would not really want to spend time on how to define formats from scratch. besides, there's even no help available how to do so:

Why can't just support common formats by default and able to choose from:

something like there's already Editor->Code Style->Set from:

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glensc commented 3 years ago

this plugin is soo confusing to use, that people even create a standalone project just to document how to use this: https://github.com/dszczer/ideolog-symfony-format

gavenkoa commented 1 year ago

It is obvious this plugin is POC / even non-alpha ready even in 2022. No need to waste time on it,

Built-in support is cumbersome to use too but at least stack traces are navigable: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/setting-log-options.html

gavenkoa commented 1 year ago

It is better to associate .log file to Text files, then TextMate Bundles plugin will highlight lots of data (dates/time/severity/etc).

dennismetz commented 1 year ago

Do you think there will be an update in the near future? Will the plugin be developed further at all? Is there perhaps a better replacement?

ArtemKar123 commented 6 months ago

Fixed in #165. Will be released in the next version. Thanks for your feedback!

glensc commented 6 months ago

https://github.com/JetBrains/ideolog/pull/165 doesn't seem to have anything addressed in the issue description.

more importantly:

I would not really want to spend time on how to define formats from scratch. besides, there's even no help available how to do so.

Why can't just support common formats by default and able to choose from:

But good luck, I'm not using this plugin.