Use 🛑 (red octagonal stop sign) for ERROR prefix

 is a thin black-and-white cross that gets lost against terminal
backgrounds and the ANSI red text. 🛑 is a solid red octagon that
reads unmistakably as 'stop/error' at a glance, even when the user
isn't reading the line carefully.
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2026-06-17 04:35:28 +02:00
parent fc4d0d6dc7
commit 77b9d943e4
3 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -119,11 +119,11 @@ func (w *Writer) Warning(format string, args ...any) {
_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w.out, prefix+fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
}
// Error prints " ERROR: " in red followed by the message. Goes to the
// Error prints "🛑 ERROR: " in red followed by the message. Goes to the
// same writer as everything else; callers that want stderr should
// construct a separate Writer for it.
func (w *Writer) Error(format string, args ...any) {
prefix := " " + w.paint(ansiRed+ansiBold, "ERROR: ")
prefix := "🛑 " + w.paint(ansiRed+ansiBold, "ERROR: ")
_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w.out, prefix+fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
}

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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ func TestMessageMethodsPlain(t *testing.T) {
{"Info", func(w *Writer) { w.Info("status") }, "》 status\n"},
{"Notice", func(w *Writer) { w.Notice("note") }, "》 note\n"},
{"Warning", func(w *Writer) { w.Warning("oops") }, "⚠️ Warning: oops\n"},
{"Error", func(w *Writer) { w.Error("boom") }, " ERROR: boom\n"},
{"Error", func(w *Writer) { w.Error("boom") }, "🛑 ERROR: boom\n"},
{"Progress", func(w *Writer) { w.Progress("p") }, " 》 p\n"},
{"Banner", func(w *Writer) { w.Banner("hello") }, "hello\n"},
}