Session based / Telnet console.

[0xStuart]

Is it possible to create multiple instances of Spectre in the same app?

If you have long running server apps, without a UI, it's handy to have a console you can connect to. A listener socket you can Telnet into which creates a console session. I find it useful for debugging, making live configuration changes, or capturing the log output in real-time.

It would be nice to make it look better with Spectre. I want to be able to launch new instances, on demand, but couldn't see any solution to this.

[patriksvensson]

You can create a new AnsiConsole via the AnsiConsole.Create. If you don't want to output all the consoles to stdout, you will need to implement an IAnsiConsoleOutput and use that one when creating the console.

[0xStuart]

Thanks @patriksvensson It works great. I managed to hack something together this weekend.

For those interested, https://gitlab.com/logicethos/consoleserver
Needs cleaning up a bit, and testing with more telnet clients. I will create a Nuget at some point.