[Swan-dev] prefixing debug lines with connection/state?

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> BTW, the man page has this comment regarding the "|":
> 
>     All lines of debugging output are prefixed with "| " to distinguish them from normal diagnostic messages.
> 
> so I'm left wondering if we're even putting the time stamp in the wrong place, i.e., this:
> 
>     Oct 30 12:38:55.367727: | category states: 1 count states: 1
> 
> should look like this:
> 
>     | Oct 30 12:38:55.367727: category states: 1 count states: 1

That makes it much harder to read. Usually you scan and follow the
messages. Having a bunch of microsecond digits to scan over wouldn't
make it easier.

Paul