For readability, is it possible to add a color to call responses or any other variable?

[fermartz]

@chenyan-dfinity First of all, thanks for putting together this awesome tool 🙌 .

In bash you can the do the following and change the color of some text. I was wondering if it would be possible to do the same in the test scripts? If so, how?

LIGHTBLUE='\033[1;34m'
NOCOLOR='\033[0m'

echo -e $LIGHTBLUE

echo "My text with light blue color"

echo -e $NOCOLOR

echo "My text with default bash color"

Thanks !!!

[chenyan2002]

This ties to a more general question of how we display string/result. Currently, the result of expressions are all display on screen. This is great for REPL, but can be too noisy for scripts. Also string is using debug print, so these control escapes won't work.

We can add an echo command that displays the unescaped string, and omit displaying expression result without echo command. This would be a breaking change though.

[fermartz]

Thanks for the explanation. Since I couldn't find a way to do it directly in the script I raised the question here. Adding colors is just a 'nice to have' feature, not a big deal. I will close the ticket.