Stuck figuring out how to get ideolog working? read this

[not-a-cowfr]

Instead of you trying to figure out how to work this for 4 hours straight like i did, read this (hopefully) helpful explanation of what i did

Here's how I have mine set up to look

note that my format is HH:mm:ss [<log>] | <message>

And here's how I did that in python

import logging as log
formatter = log.Formatter('%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] | %(message)s', datefmt='%H:%M:%S')

First, make a new Log Format

The regex that I used is ^(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})\s(\[[A-Z]*\])(\s\|\s)(.*)$
link to how my regex works

Then add all the colors for the patterns that you want, here's how I have mine

[WARNING] ^.*\s*(\[WARNING\]).*

[ERROR] ^.*\s*(\[ERROR\]).*

[FATAL] ^.*\s*(\[FATAL\]).*

[INFO] ^.*\s*(\[INFO\]).*

[DEBUG] ^.*\s*(\[DEBUG\]).*

[TRACE]/[TRACEBACK] ^.*\s*(\[TRACE|TRACEBACK\]).*

Timestamp ^(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})

Helpful tips

1. I cannot stress enough how much regex101 saved me while I was doing this, i quite literally learned how regex works with this

2. Ideolog uses a very unusual implementation of regex, meaning that something that would work literally anywhere else, might not work with this, for example, ending your regex with /i to make everything case insensitive, does not work

3. If you think something should have changed, but doesn't, try restarting your ide

if you have any questions that I might have left out, reply here, if I don't respond after a while, dm me on discord not_a_cow

[bedge]

Thanks for this. Appreciate the effort. This experience really does make one feel like a bit of an idiot.

2 questions if I may

1. Any hints on testing?
   I still get the "Log format not recognized" and I'm pretty sure I have a match.
   regex101 says it works but there's no indication

2. Got it working through sheer dumb luck, but now I can't find the config anymore.
   I was navigating to the idealog config earlier only because O was getting the "Log format not recognized" error on opening log files.
   But now that I have a valid format, the error's gone and I can't find the settings.

[smirok]

Hi @not-a-cowfr @bedge! Thank you for your instructions and comments.

Have you tried using the tips from the wiki documentation? If so, were they useful to you?

[matanox]

How does one get to that configuration window seen above? The getting started path for this plugin is kind of a vim-like experience to me, or I missed this in the kind getting started wiki documentation (doh!)

[brezelman]

How does one get to that configuration window seen above? The getting started path for this plugin is kind of a vim-like experience to me, or I missed this in the kind getting started wiki documentation (doh!)

Found it!
File | Settings | Editor | Log Highlighting

[Xelbayria]

1. Any hints on testing?
   I still get the "Log format not recognized" and I'm pretty sure I have a match.
   regex101 says it works but there's no indication

When you get a message like that, that mean your regex doesn't account for a unique content in the log. you gotta make sure it cover all of the contents that a log has. I had to think and figure out how it works. it wasn't easy, tho. It took me about 4 hours to understand how it's done.