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I run a script in terminal and the output printed in the terminal I also save in a text file. How can I display that text in Gedit colored similar to what I can see in the terminal?

I thought there could be a plugin.

Update

I might not have been as clear as I planed, so I would like to see similar coloring changes in the plain text file as appears in terminal, not for shell scripts but if I have an error message (e.g. compiler error) than those line to be differentiated from other printouts in terminal.

$ rosrun my_pkg my_node >> terminal_printout

Update 2

My gedit version is 3.10.4

ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1:amd64   3.10.2-0ubuntu1 amd64 sared libraries for the GTK+ syntax highlighting widget
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-common    3.10.2-0ubuntu1 all common files for the GTK+ syntax highlighting widget
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Answer for the second version of the question

To add a highlighting for your log files, you have to write your own syntax highlighter. But that's a lot of work. Or try an existing syntax highlighter.

Open your file in gedit and click on Plain Text as you can see in the next screen shot:

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Predefined syntax highlighter can you find in

/usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/

Answer for the first version of the question

A simple text (Plain Text) file hasn't a syntax highlighting in gedit

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Add some code in the file and save. Now the syntax highlighting for bash (sh) is active. You can see this in the status bar in the screen shot below

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The colours of a shell script in a terminal is possible with escape sequences, see the next screen shots

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As you can see, those are completely different things. In gedit you have colours via syntax highlighting and in a terminal with escape sequences.

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