Improve Copy / Paste on new Logging View

Hey hey 😃 I’ve been trying out the new logging view and wanted to provide a bit of feedback wrt copying and pasting logged messages. It’s a pretty common task when running into bugs in a larger app where another team might be responsible for the feature you’re navigating through and you encounter an error. I might want to create a new ticket with the StackTrace, or paste it into slack for discussion.

Issue 1: Use cmd+c to copy a log Message

1. Enable new logging view (applies to all of these)
2. Run the app
3. See a log message or many messages you’re interested in copying
4. Highlight it and press cmd+c to copy
5. Get output like this when pasting:

io.flutter.logging.FlutterLogEntry@76b5b7da | io.flutter.logging.FlutterLogEntry@76b5b7da | io.flutter.logging.FlutterLogEntry@76b5b7da | io.flutter.logging.FlutterLogEntry@76b5b7da
-- | -- | -- | --

Workaround: Secondary-click on the message, click “Copy asText”. This now produces a result I was expecting:

13:30:48.572 2508 800 flutter.tools Restarted app in 1,230ms.

or with multiple lines:

13:30:48.572 2508 800 flutter.tools Restarted app in 1,230ms.
13:30:47.834 2509 400 runtime.gc collection time 1ms • 26.2MB used of 27.2MB • isolates/21837764
13:30:48.007 2510 400 runtime.gc collection time 2ms • 30.0MB used of 31.2MB • isolates/21837764

Issue 2: Copy a portion of the message

Say I want to filer down to a specific message. Rather than typing it in (error-prone, sometimes long), it’d be great to copy only a portion of the message rather than “Copy as Text” and have to remove the bits I don’t want.

1. Run app with new logging view
2. Attempt to select only a portion of the logged message, e.g. I wanted to copy “Restarted app” from the message “Restarted app in 1,230ms.”
3. Can’t quite see a way to do this

Thanks for all the hard work and community effort on this feature!

[brianegan]

Yep! This provided the functionality I was looking for 😃

[quangson91]

@pq, @brianegan, I created a new PR: https://github.com/flutter/flutter-intellij/pull/2473 with two features:

• support copy a part of the log.
• support search a part of the log with Google.