If at all possible, I would really appreciate having the file / Line # of invocation included

[noeticpenguin]

First off, Adam this is a brilliant piece of kit. Kudos.

I'm putting together a pack of Javascript libraries for Salesforce developers and would really love to include your library. One hitch, however, is the automatic inclusion of the file / line # of the invocation. I suspect that we'll always see log.js:19 on the right, but perhaps the file / line # of the invoking script can be included as a "tag" or something on the left ?

[adamschwartz]

@noeticpenguin, thanks!

We definitely want to add line numbers. However, unfortunately, the nature of wrapping console.log means we'll lose the ability to display the line number on the right.

There are a number of possible solutions we are considering to address this. For example, if we change the exports at the bottom of the script to something like the following:

window.log = console.log.bind(console)
window.log.format = stringToArgs

Then you could call the following and still get line numbers:

log(log.format('this is _bold_'))

If you didn't want the text to be formatted, you could still call:

log('this is _just some text with two underscores around it_')

Of course, having to wrap your string in a log.format is certainly less sexy than we'd like. So we're considering other possible solutions as well.

You can keep track of the progress we make on this by checking out #1.

Thanks again for your support. We definitely want to continue to improve log in the weeks to come.

On a related note, there may be some potential changes coming to console.log. We're actively following and participating in the discussions here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=167911
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20141

Hope this helps!