libemotify-stderr

A simple library that will spice up your stderr output.

libemotify-stderr replaces stderr file descriptor with a pipe and processes program output before redirecting it back to original stderr. All this to add emojis at the start of error lines. Or to make them colorful.

Building

Library is built using cmake and make. In repository directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

How to use

Add the built .so to your LD_PRELOAD:

export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libemotify-stderr.so

or

LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libemotify-stderr.so command

Envirnoment variable settings

• EMOJIFY_COLORS=1 will enable coloring of the stderr output
• EMOJIFY_REACTS=0 will disable emojis

Known issues

• git (and some other programs probably) uses stderr for output and doesn't like this lib 😠