Yes, we could add colors to Inspect.Opts. Keep in mind we want to make coloring customizable, so the :colors value in Inspect.Opts should likely be a key-value thing. Maybe: [number: :red, atom: :blue] and so on?
*José Valim* www.plataformatec.com.br Skype: jv.ptec Founder and Director of R&D On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Louis Pop <louispopin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey gang! > > On Saturday we're having a little Elixir build day at work and I thought > this could be a fun thing to suggest as a project. > > I just had a look at IEx and it seems that for printing it delegates to > the Inspect protocol for printing. > Would it be reasonable to extend this protocol (and Inspect.Opts) to > optionally print with colours? > > Thanks, > Louis > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 at 15:29 José Valim <jose.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Improvements to the REPL are always welcome but low priority for the >> team. If you believe you can implement any of those improvements, please >> send a pull request, and we will be glad to further discuss and review >> them. Keep in mind though some of those improvements would need to be done >> in Erlang. >> >> Detailed feedback below: >> >> >> 1. Ability to paste snippets using cpaste; this would solve the >> problem of multiline pipes >> >> Sounds great. Although to implement this we would need to hook into OS >> specific APIs? >> >> >> 1. Ability to pickup files in current working directory; completion >> of filenames etc when writing test code in iex would be very benecifial >> >> How would you know though the string you are starting to type is a file >> name? Do you look for clues such as "/" or "./"? >> >> >> 1. Syntax highlighting; it would be nice to see some syntax >> highlighting like in the newer version of iPython >> >> Sounds great. We already have the code for parsing Elixir and convert it >> back to string, so the hardest part is done. We just need to decide how to >> do the coloring. I don't think we will be able to color as you type though, >> that would likely require additions to the Erlang side of the REPL. >> >> Thank you! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> msgid/elixir-lang-core/8f5c2ea6-f7c1-42ab-9ba3- >> 5d19669c58e1%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/8f5c2ea6-f7c1-42ab-9ba3-5d19669c58e1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM-pwt7PKTjbsGabNj6NAKmVPL5nGWAtm > %3DNjNGStiOTWGyBPiA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM-pwt7PKTjbsGabNj6NAKmVPL5nGWAtm%3DNjNGStiOTWGyBPiA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4KSuK7p1LdBXsM-9SLMvPAJFeTMpTo7JX1aT9F1qM3ZjA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
