An `output:` cmd

[max-sixty]

I frequently want to update the user with the status of the task, from the taskfile. For example:

    cmds:
      ...
      - cmd: echo "✅ Success! setup-dev complete! 😇🚀"
        silent: true

There's some awkwardness with using echo though:

• It's inline with the other output, which is sometimes quite verbose. We can use emojis to try and highlight it. But ideally it would be a different color, or some other semantic difference.
• We always want silent: true, because there's no need to also print the command (we see the output anyway)

So the question / proposal is to instead have something similar to output syntax but as a task:

    cmds:
      ...
      - output: ✅ Success! setup-dev complete! 😇🚀

...which would then print in a different color, or with a prefix, or whatever ideas people have.

Clearly this isn't a problem that makes task otherwise unusable — it would be a small QoL feature. But I wanted to raise regardless, in the case that others agree it would be positive.

Thanks as ever!

[trulede]

Closing stale issue. You can easily adjust the output color by echoing the relevant color codes.