Abstractly, I’d love to be able to print using Color.jl. It seems like a much 
cleaner interface.

But it’s not clear to me that Color.jl buys you a lot if your terminal doesn’t 
support a widerange of colors.

 — John

On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Spencer Russell <spencer.f.russ...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I just filed an issue [1] that currently the print_with_color() doesn't seem 
> to use the correct colors on my system.
> 
> While checking it out, I was thinking that print_with_color might fit in 
> nicely with Color.jl.
> 
> We could pull print_with_color out of Base and add all the color terminal 
> codes to Color.jl, which could implement print(msg::String, 
> color::ColorValue) and related functions. This feels more in line with Julian 
> style of leveraging the type system to replace functions with underscores.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8096

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