Different colour for warning versus error in build window with CMake
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It is very difficult to quickly differentiate between build errors and warnings or notes in the build window.
There are 2 warnings, 3 notes and one error in the image above but finding he error is not easy, especially if this output is many pages long.
You can change the colour in Settings->Editor->Color Scheme->Console Colors->Console->Error output
How can you set a different colour for note, warning and error?
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Anyone?
Hello!
The colors are controlled by CMake (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE.html).
We have https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-8540 which sounds related to your request. Feel free to comment or upvote the issue. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241135-How-to-follow-YouTrack-issues-and-receive-notifications if you are not familiar with YouTrack.
Thanks for the response.
After a lot more digging I have found that the colours are actually controlled by the compiler and you can influence that by providing config to the compiler.
See https://apimirror.com/gcc~7/diagnostic-message-formatting-options
So in my case adding
to CMakeList.txt solved my problem.
Hope it helps someone else.
Thanks a lot for sharing the solution!