[feat] cargo config preference option for `-- --nocapture`

[loynoir]

Problem

Current cargo test ... -- --nocapture cannot written in cargo config alias.

Would be nice to add cargo config preference option for -- --nocapture.

Proposed Solution

[test]
default_nocapture = true

Notes

No response

[epage]

Current cargo test ... -- --nocapture cannot written in cargo config alias.

It can't? What happens when you try?

Would be nice to add cargo config preference option for -- --nocapture.

There is the question of how we should respond to custom test harnesses. They may or may not support this flag. I wonder if this should wait until we better integrate cargo test and libtest and allow users to tell cargo the level of integration their custom test harness has, so we know if --nocapture is supported or not.

Could you explain why you would want it in config? --nocapture can be quite noisy and even be hard to read with concurrent test output. It seems like having it in a persistent config would be less than ideal.

[loynoir]

Both not working, would be nice to be vvverbose.

[test]
nocapture = true

[alias]
tv = "test $@ -- --nocapture --color always"

[epage]

tv = "test $@ -- --nocapture --color always"

So specifically the problem with aliases is the ability to control where arguments go within an alias.

Something I've wondered about is if some libtest CLI arguments should be replicated inside of cargo so that you can do cargo test --nocapture.

Color is being tracked in #1983.