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Use 🛑 (red octagonal stop sign) for ERROR prefix

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❌ 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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Jeffrey Paul
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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README.md
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@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Message classes:
| Info | `》` (white) | column 0 | Neutral status update | | Info | `》` (white) | column 0 | Neutral status update |
| Notice | `》` (cyan) | column 0 | Important note that is not a warning | | Notice | `》` (cyan) | column 0 | Important note that is not a warning |
| Warning | `⚠️ Warning:` (orange/yellow) | column 0 | Recoverable problem | | Warning | `⚠️ Warning:` (orange/yellow) | column 0 | Recoverable problem |
| Error | `❌ ERROR:` (red) | column 0 | Operation aborted | | Error | `🛑 ERROR:` (red) | column 0 | Operation aborted |
| Progress | ` 》` (white) | column 2 | Heartbeat or per-item status during a long-running operation | | Progress | ` 》` (white) | column 2 | Heartbeat or per-item status during a long-running operation |
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internal/ui/ui.go
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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...)) _, _ = 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 // same writer as everything else; callers that want stderr should
// construct a separate Writer for it. // construct a separate Writer for it.
func (w *Writer) Error(format string, args ...any) { 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...)) _, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w.out, prefix+fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
} }

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internal/ui/ui_test.go
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ func TestMessageMethodsPlain(t *testing.T) {
{"Info", func(w *Writer) { w.Info("status") }, "》 status\n"}, {"Info", func(w *Writer) { w.Info("status") }, "》 status\n"},
{"Notice", func(w *Writer) { w.Notice("note") }, "》 note\n"}, {"Notice", func(w *Writer) { w.Notice("note") }, "》 note\n"},
{"Warning", func(w *Writer) { w.Warning("oops") }, "⚠️ Warning: oops\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"}, {"Progress", func(w *Writer) { w.Progress("p") }, " 》 p\n"},
{"Banner", func(w *Writer) { w.Banner("hello") }, "hello\n"}, {"Banner", func(w *Writer) { w.Banner("hello") }, "hello\n"},
} }