Output no control chars for tsc --watch

[ORESoftware]

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tsc watch control-chars stdout

Suggestion

I am looking for this option:

tsc --watch --no-control-chars

Use Cases

I am collecting some logs from tsc -w using some tooling and the logs have control chars which we don't really need:

�c[�[90m2:09:12 PM�[0m] Starting compilation in watch mode...
[�[90m2:09:15 PM�[0m] Found 0 errors. Watching for file changes.

instead I am just looking for this in my logs:

2:09:12 PM Starting compilation in watch mode...
2:09:15 PM Found 0 errors. Watching for file changes.

[weswigham]

Pass --pretty false and --preserveWatchOutput~

[ORESoftware]

is that tilde ~ necessary or is that your signature

i figure if tsc can tell if it's not writing to a terminal/tty, it could adopt some of these by default?

[weswigham]

is that tilde ~ necessary or is that your signature

That ~ is just for style~

i figure if tsc can tell if it's not writing to a terminal/tty, it could adopt some of these by default?

It tries. We do tty checking internally and only turn on pretty by default when run with a tty (as checked by process.stdout.isTTY). Has no effect on the watch-mode clear character, though.

[typescript-bot]

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