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Log Colors on IntelliJ Run Console

Having problems to see the colors for logs on the IntelliJ Run Console (windows).

Through Cygwin run, I see logs have different colors, e.g: enter image description here

On the IntelliJ run Console, same logs show without any colors: enter image description here

Solution

  • The GrepConsole plugin for IntelliJ supports something like this.

    Here's some console output with no use of GrepConsole:

    enter image description here

    And here's the same console output again but with GrepConsole configured to render lines containing INFO in green and lines containing ERROR in red:

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    Here's the GrepConsole configuration:

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    Note: this does not exactly match what you asked for (highlighting a single word) but it's close and configuring GrepConsole for this behavour is very simple and GrepConsole also offers other useful features such a searching and filtering the console output.