Newline syntax for seqcli print templates - #484
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seqcli printaccepts a--templateargument to control formatting. This was previously a Serilog ouput template, where{NewLine}is supported. Recently, this switched to the (vastly more capable and actively developed) Serilog.Expressions formatting, where newlines are expected to be literally included in templates and no special newline syntax exists.This poses a problem on Windows, where process args are not permitted to contain newlines (it appears to work fine on Linux, which caught me out :-)).
This PR extends
--templateto allow some simple C#-style escape sequences for newlines:Requires
\\escaping of literal backslashes, though these should rarely show up in this context.Fixes #483