Improve filtering of ANSI escape sequences in build logs

All ANSI sequences except color setting are now filtered out. In
particular, terminal resets (such as from NixOS VM tests) are filtered
out.

Also, fix the completely broken tab character handling.

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 272997397794..f7a12d21b244 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -1178,36 +1178,51 @@ void ignoreException()
 }
 
 
-string filterANSIEscapes(const string & s, bool nixOnly)
-{
-    string t, r;
-    enum { stTop, stEscape, stCSI } state = stTop;
-    for (auto c : s) {
-        if (state == stTop) {
-            if (c == '\e') {
-                state = stEscape;
-                r = c;
-            } else
-                t += c;
-        } else if (state == stEscape) {
-            r += c;
-            if (c == '[')
-                state = stCSI;
-            else {
-                t += r;
-                state = stTop;
+std::string filterANSIEscapes(const std::string & s, unsigned int width)
+{
+    std::string t, e;
+    size_t w = 0;
+    auto i = s.begin();
+
+    while (w < (size_t) width && i != s.end()) {
+
+        if (*i == '\e') {
+            std::string e;
+            e += *i++;
+            char last = 0;
+
+            if (i != s.end() && *i == '[') {
+                e += *i++;
+                // eat parameter bytes
+                while (i != s.end() && *i >= 0x30 && *i <= 0x3f) e += *i++;
+                // eat intermediate bytes
+                while (i != s.end() && *i >= 0x20 && *i <= 0x2f) e += *i++;
+                // eat final byte
+                if (i != s.end() && *i >= 0x40 && *i <= 0x7e) e += last = *i++;
+            } else {
+                if (i != s.end() && *i >= 0x40 && *i <= 0x5f) e += *i++;
             }
-        } else {
-            r += c;
-            if (c >= 0x40 && c <= 0x7e) {
-                if (nixOnly && (c != 'p' && c != 'q' && c != 's' && c != 'a' && c != 'b'))
-                    t += r;
-                state = stTop;
-                r.clear();
+
+            if (last == 'm')
+                t += e;
+        }
+
+        else if (*i == '\t') {
+            i++; t += ' '; w++;
+            while (w < (size_t) width && w % 8) {
+                t += ' '; w++;
             }
         }
+
+        else if (*i == '\r')
+            // do nothing for now
+            ;
+
+        else {
+            t += *i++; w++;
+        }
     }
-    t += r;
+
     return t;
 }