Optional Try Runtime Logging

[AurevoirXavier]

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Motivation

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Request

Make such log

polkadot-sdk/substrate/utils/frame/remote-externalities/src/lib.rs

Line 694 in b7afe48

let mut sp = Spinner::with_timer(Spinners::Dots, "Scraping keys...".into());

optional.

The log looks good in terminal. But if we redirect it to a file. It becomes a disaster.

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Yes!, Maybe (please elaborate above)

[bkchr]

Sounds reasonable. We should probably detect if StdErr is a terminal and if not, not even initialize the spinner.

@AurevoirXavier can you do this? This should be useful here.

[AurevoirXavier]

@AurevoirXavier can you do this? This should be useful here.

Great! I'll work on this.

[AurevoirXavier]

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41u5hw/what_is_the_exact_difference_between_a_terminal_a/

I'm wondering should we use is_tty or is_terminal?

https://github.com/softprops/atty

Okay, let's go is_terminal.