Log to file

[sleeyax]

Is it possible to write logs to a file? It would be nice if there was a way to both log to console/terminal and write to a .txt file to view output logs of long-running operations at a later point in time.

[0x20F]

Hi! Thank you for the issue!

It's not possible at the moment.
However it shouldn't be that hard to implement given the fact that the formatter already has a flag to exclude colors from the generated logs if needed. Those could then be piped out into a file if, say, the "to-file" feature is enabled or something similar.

Suggestion

I will unfortunately not be able to sit with this for a few weeks, however, if you'd like to give it a try I would suggest you start by looking at the stdout method of the logger in src/logger/mod.rs.

If the feature is enabled, you would run format_string (in src/formatter/mod.rs) with the second parameter as false in order to remove all the color keys from the string and dump the line into a file of your choosing.

[XARP616]

Maybe you can try simplelog, which has different types of loggers (see readme, TermLogger, WriteLogger) and does implement paris as a feature for beatiful ouput.