minor contrib/suggestion: timestamp

[RootlessAgrarian]

I have made a small hack to prettyping which imho renders it way more useful. I leave pp running for hours at a time to watch the performance of the first hop to my (radio) repeater. when I see disruptions (lost packets, long turnarounds) in the history I want to know when they happened; so I added a timestamp at the end of each line.

                       if ( IS_PRINTING_DOTS ) {
                                # HACK, add time stamp to end of each line!
                                printf(system("date \"+ %m.%d.%H:%M\""))
                                # printf( "\n" )
                        }

so the end of a typical line for me is now (example):

▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.02.14:36

unfortunately I don't understand the code quite well enough to make this behave correctly under all circumstances: when the last char of a line is a red bang (lost packet), for some reason I get an extra linefeed and 2 timestamps. the first timestamp is in red (same text formatting as the bang) and then there is a regular (green) timestamp on a line by itself. this is not bothering me much at present :-) since very rarely is there a bang as the last char of the line.

I'd really appreciate it if some future release, someday, had a new flag --timestamp and implemented my crude hack more cleanly so that it doesn't disrupt the output format no matter what the final char of the line is.

[traisjames]

It may be 2022 but as someone who just discovered this program I love this idea. I already have my call for Prettyping to do a new line every two minutes but this would greatly help I think.