talkative

A simple logging library for awesome.

Installation

Put the contents of this repository inside a folder named talkative in your awesome config dir (usually ~/.config/awesome). If your awesome configuration is managed by git, I recommend adding this repo as a git submodule:

git submodule add https://github.com/crater2150/awesome-talkative.git talkative

Then, in your rc.lua:

local talkative = require("talkative")

or to use a shorter name:

local log = require("talkative")

Usage

To log a message, call one of the following methods:

• log.dbg(msg), log level DEBUG (lowest)
• log.log(msg), log level NORMAL
• log.warn(msg), log level WARNING
• log.error(msg), log level ERROR (highest)

As a shorthand, the module can be called directly, causing a message to be logged with level NORMAL:

local log = require("talkative")
log("Hello")

Declaring loggers

To see the message, you must declare loggers in your rc.lua using add_logger(logger, level):

log.add_logger(log.loggers.stdio, log.level.DEBUG)
log.add_logger(log.loggers.naughty, log.level.WARNING)

A logger is called, whenever a message is logged with a level, that is at least as high as the level given to add_logger.

Talkative contains two predefined loggers:

• talkative.loggers.stdio writes messages to stdout.
• talkative.loggers.naughty uses naughty to display a popup. For log levels WARNING and ERROR, the font color is set to yellow, resp. red.

Custom loggers

Loggers are simple Lua functions, that take two parameters: the message and the log level. A logger function may use the level to change formatting, but should not restrict output based on it, this is handled by the message methods.