config: add log-file and log-level settings

Allow configuring persistent logging to file with a log level. When
redirecting the output of aerc to a file these two settings are ignored
and all messages are printed to stdout.

Suggested-by: Moritz Poldrack <moritz@poldrack.dev>
Suggested-by: Tim Culverhouse <tim@timculverhouse.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
Acked-by: Tim Culverhouse <tim@timculverhouse.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/aerc.go b/aerc.go
index 1826567f..09ddc43f 100644
--- a/aerc.go
+++ b/aerc.go
@@ -167,17 +167,14 @@ func main() {
 		retryExec = true
 	}
 
-	if !isatty.IsTerminal(os.Stdout.Fd()) {
-		logging.Init()
-	}
-	logging.Infof("Starting up version %s", logging.BuildInfo)
-
 	conf, err := config.LoadConfigFromFile(nil, accts)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Failed to load config: %v\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1) //nolint:gocritic // PanicHandler does not need to run as it's not a panic
 	}
 
+	logging.Infof("Starting up version %s", logging.BuildInfo)
+
 	var (
 		aerc *widgets.Aerc
 		ui   *libui.UI