Breaking: Changes to Output Window

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To do list

• Confirm implementation
• Apply confirmed implementation
• Documentation changes
• Review current logging levels & increase trace/debug logging

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The current state of the output window is not optimal. Highlighted from #25

Issue When the showOuputWindow setting is set to false the output isn’t optimised for errors. Plus some errors aren’t being shown (again, with the above setup)

Resolution See this comment

Old/outdated resolution

• When the above setting is false the output only saves errors rather than the current full log.
• All errors during compilation will also force the output to open, regardless of settings

When false, what exactly is going to be saved/shown?

Type	Saved	Shown
General error	✔️	✔️
@error	✔️	✔️
@warn	✔️	❌
@debug	✔️	❌
Autoprefixer warnings	✔️	❌
Successful compilation	❌	❌
Start/Stop watching	❌	❌
Files found/compiling	❌	❌

Extension level errors will still show a pop out. Which you can still report using the liveSass.command.reportIssue command

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This change also requires some document changed

[glenn2223]

@zigojacko, I’ll push your suggestion in the next alpha release

[glenn2223]

Closed with v5.0.0-alpha.5 release