README.md

VSCode Log Output Colorizer

Language extension for VSCode/Bluemix Code that adds syntax colorization for both the output/debug/extensions panel and *.log files.

Note: If you are using other extensions that colorize the output panel, it could override and disable this extension.

Colorization should work with most themes because it uses common theme token style names. It also works with most instances of the output panel. Initially attempts to match common literals (strings, dates, numbers, guids) and warning|info|error|server|local messages.

Customization

You can customize the semantic identification of the output by adding entries to outputcolorizer.semantics.

Example:

In settings.json:

    "outputcolorizer.semantics": [
        {
            "pattern": "{.*}",
            "applies": "between",
            "tokenType": "info",
            "tokenModifier": "output"
        },
    ]

This will identify anything inside the matching regex pattern as info.output semantics. Now you are free to add your own color rule:

// settings.json
    "editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations": {
        "rules": {
            "error.output": "#ff0000",
            "info.output": "#00ff00"
        },
    },

Settings Object:

interface SemanticObject {
  pattern: string;    // A Regex compliant string
  applies: 'between' | 'eol' | 'eof';
  tokenType: string;
  tokenModifier: string;
}

• pattern

  This is a regex string fed into RegExp() class. Escape rules apply just as they would to the RegExp class in javascript.

• applies

  Applies	Description
  between	From the start to the end of the regex will be identified by the semantic tokenType.tokenModifier
  eol	From the start of the regex match to the end of the line will be identified by the sematnic tokenType.tokenModifier, unless another token occurs before then
  eof	From the start of the regex match to the end of the file will be identified by the sematnic tokenType.tokenModifier, unless another token occurs before then

• tokenType

  This can be either a standard token or a custom name that you would like to assign values to separately.

• tokenModifier

  This can be either a standard modifier or a custom name that you would like to assign values to separately.

Change Log

• 0.1.2 - Updated for compliance with upcoming VS Code marketplace changes
• 0.1.1 - Regex updates for color coding support

Contributing

You can contribute to the project by reading the Contribution guidelines

In action

VSCode Git Output

Default Dark Theme

Default Light Theme

Night Blue Theme

Helpful References:

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/colorizer
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33403324/how-to-create-a-simple-custom-language-colorization-to-vs-code
• http://manual.macromates.com/en/language_grammars

Support

You can open an issue on the GitHub repo

License

MIT

Attribution

Portions of the language grammar are based off of a StackOverflow question, asked by user emilast and answered by user Wosi, availble under Creative Commons at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33403324/how-to-create-a-simple-custom-language-colorization-to-vs-code