Different colors of print and message

bersbersbers commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug I am still trying to find out what the different colors means in the VS Code Debug Console, but I already noticed that print and message produce different colors. Is this intended? I do not see any semantic difference between the two.

To Reproduce

Your R code

print(1)
message(1)

Your Launch config If applicable, the launch config that causes the bug. E.g.:

        {
            "type": "R-Debugger",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Debug R-File",
            "debugMode": "file",
            "workingDirectory": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "file": "${file}",
            "allowGlobalDebugging": true
        }

Expected behavior Identical colors (I believe)

ManuelHentschel commented 4 years ago

The specific colours are mostly controlled by VS Code, the extension has only indirect influence on the colours by using different "output channels":

Text that is sent as normal output to the debug console is blue. This is mostly text that is printed to R's stdout by e.g. print() and cat().
Text that is sent as error output (i.e. "stderr") is shown red. This includes message() from you example, as well as error(), cat(..., file=stderr()) etc.
Text that is sent in a "structured" way is formatted by VS Code. This includes the result of evaluate-requests entered in the debug console and output produced by .vsc.str(). The colours are pretty much the same as in the variables window. Usually, numerical values will be shown green, strings orange, names of child variables purple, and everything else grey.

Note: The specific colours probably vary depending on the selected colour theme, the ones I described above are from Dark+

bersbersbers commented 4 years ago

Oh my:

The default handler sends the message to the stderr() connection.

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/topics/message

I did not know that. Thank you and sorry for the noise.

ManuelHentschel / VSCode-R-Debugger

Different colors of print and message #98