Is there a colored REPL for Clojure?

Question

I\'d like to get a colored REPL for clojure code, similar to what you can do with IRB for Ruby.

Are there any libraries or settings for user.clj that provide automati

Answer 1

Rather late to the party, here, but you can get this from using the Leiningen plugin Ultra (which also has support for colorized stacktraces and pretty-printed test output), or by adding Whidbey to your list of Leiningen plugins instead.

Sample Ultra REPL:

Answer 2

Try out Light Table Playground by Chris Granger. It is the first part of more ambitous multi language IDE.

It has a color Clojure REPL that does real time evaluations and display for entire blocks of code.

http://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/

You can see a higher level view of the project here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table

Answer 3

Some coloring have REPL in VimClojure.

Answer 4

• Install Emacs 24
• Install Emacs Starter Kit v2
• M-x package-install -> starter-kit-lisp
• Add to init.el: (add-hook 'slime-repl-mode-hook 'clojure-mode-font-lock-setup)
• Install Swank for Clojure
• Open your Clojure project and M-x clojure-jack-in

Answer 5

If you just want to color the prompt and you are using Leiningen (which you should), you can use :repl-options and ANSI escape sequences:

:repl-options {:prompt (fn [ns]
                         (str "\033[1;32m"
                              ns "=>"
                              "\033[0m "))}

References:

• GitHub – technomancy/leiningen – sample.project.clj
• roguejs.com – “Console colors in node.js”, posted 2011