Am I misunderstanding Captured Output?

[Barry MacKichan]

I have two triggers in my Profile.

One uses the regular expression:

([/a-zA-Z0-9.]+:\d+)(: )?(error): .*$ and the action is Highlight Text with yellow text and a black background.

It does just fine coloring a line like

/Users/user/src/mozilla/editor/libeditor/msi/msiEditor.cpp:85: error: expected initializer before ‘instanceCounter’

when I remove a brace from some source code.

The second trigger uses the same regular expression and Capture Output as the action. Nothing shows up in the Toolbelt. I have 'Captured Output' checked in the Toolbelt menu. I've also tried various parameters such as 'subs \1' where subl is the command line start for Sublime Text 3.

Any tips? Are there any examples for using Captured Output other than the iTerm documentation.

--Barry

[Barry MacKichan]

If the regular expression is 'JavaScript strict warning:', I do get Captured Output (the action is 'echo \0'). If the regular expression is the one in the original post, I get nothing, even through the RE works for Highlight Text.

[George Nachman]

Make sure you have shell integration installed. Captured Output is tied into command history, since captured output is associated with the command that generated it.

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[Barry MacKichan]

That doesn't seem to be it.

1. "echo $ITERM_SHELL_INTEGRATION_INSTALLED" produces 'Yes'

2. Captured Output is working with the expression 'JavaScript strict warning:', but not with some other RegExes.

3. I reinstalled shell integration again anyway, and nothing changed.

--Barry

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[George Nachman]

Are you getting the blue arrow to the left of your command prompt? Perhaps shell integration is installed but isn't working properly because of other stuff in your shell.

[Barry MacKichan]

George found what my problem was. The Captured Output was failing on a very long make. Increasing the scroll back line count fixed it. 

-Barry

On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 4:10:52 PM UTC-6, Barry MacKichan wrote: