Color code?

[villflakken]

Would it be desirable as a polish-feature, to let awsec ls emit colored output, with colors according to states of the produced lines?

[Urethramancer]

I've finally had time to investigate this a bit, and I can't really think of any useful ways to add colour as there isn't much state.

These are the seemingly useful returned details from a list of parameters:

• DataType: Usually text (and always text for things awsec writes)
• Description
• LastModifiedDate: When it last changed
• LastModifiedUser: Who changed it
• Policies: Empty
• Type: String, StringList or SecureString
• Version: Number of times it has changed.

I would like to list inaccessible keys in red, but there's no way to tell what rights there are to a key/value pair. If I change the policies at the backend to not allow listing certain sections, all listing fails. Until the API allows reading some sort of "canGet" flag, there's no way to distinguish readable and unreadable data, and the policy system in AWS is too inflexible to allow filtering out from that end.

Any other ideas for what to colourise?