color log output

[colemickens]

Feature Request

I found a past issue about this, but I'm definitely not seeing color output in my process-compose windows.

For reading my application logs, the loglevel colors are very helpful, but lost when run through process-compose.

v0.80.0

[thenonameguy]

This is usually because of:
#64

Most CLI apps disable emitting ANSI color codes when they notice they are not running in a TTY (to make piping stdout/stderr work).

Depending on the exact command, you can either:

1. force ANSI color codes via a CLI flag (example: ls --color=always)
2. Take a look at the workaround in the above ticket for socat wrapper to imitate a pseudo-terminal environment.

[colemickens]

Hm, thanks for the tips, but shouldn't process-compose be able to roughly do what apps like tmux and zellij too? If I squint, process-compose is a glorified multiplexer after all.

[thenonameguy]

It could and probably should :)
That's the point of ticket #64, where it turned out it's not a simple addition to do, therefore workarounds are needed for the time being.

IMO we can close this ticket as a duplicate and continue there.

[colemickens]

Ack, thank you @thenonameguy