Excellent. Thank you both. On Aug 27, 3:13 pm, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) > > --Chouserhttp://joyofclojure.com/
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