On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:39 PM, frou <m...@frou.org> wrote: >> Is it or would it be possible to add some basic text colouring to the >> standard REPL (the one started with the "clj" shell script). >> >> It would be nice to be able to make the prompt, e.g. "user=>" coloured >> (green in my case) so that you get at-a-glance distinction between >> your inputs and the results printed. > > If you use rlwrap to invoke the clojure repl, you can do that with > --prompr-colour option > > eg; > > rlwrap -p"red" java -cp blah blah clojure.main
I didn't know about that. Cool tip, but for me it pretty easily gets confused when the prompt changes (such as when moving between namespaces). I've been using this for a while -- not perfect either, but it attempts to print a green line before each prompt, and color return values blue. (defn my-repl [] (binding [*pprint* true] (clojure.main/repl :prompt #(printf "\033[32m-----\033[m\n%s=> " (ns-name *ns*)) :print (try (fn [x] (print "\033[34m") (if *pprint* (clojure.pprint/pprint x) (prn x)) (print "\033[m") (flush)) (catch Exception e (prn e)))))) You can either just run (my-repl) at the REPL, or start Clojure with -e '(my-repl)' If you then run a little test, you can see each of the different colors: (do (println "hi") 5) --Chouser http://joyofclojure.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en