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Timeline for Colorful output on terminal

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Feb 23, 2016 at 15:02 comment added Abhinav Gauniyal I tried to study more about it today and got to know that cout/cin can be redirected to files too. tbh I wasn't even aware of it. How do you recommend to tackle that problem? Is this what I should be doing - stackoverflow.com/questions/18081392/…
Feb 23, 2016 at 2:49 comment added Jerry Coffin @AbhinavGauniyal: As one obvious example, you might have cout directed to a file, but want to highlight an error message (being written to std::cerr and still going to the console) in red.
Feb 23, 2016 at 2:47 comment added Abhinav Gauniyal Thankyou, I was definitely considering template as well and I'll correctly write that bool expression too. However I am not able to understand 1st point you've mentioned. This means the rest of the functions only work correctly if you pass std::cout as the stream to which they're going to write., well I'm targetting cout only and what else should I , and this won't write to a file with cout because of isatty. Could you explain a bit?
Feb 22, 2016 at 21:32 history answered Jerry Coffin CC BY-SA 3.0