On Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:46:55 PM UTC-4, cdm wrote: > > for example, suppose the user was > interested in changing the color > schemes in the REPL so that > the "julia>" prompt was say > yellow instead of the green from > the three dots logo, and user > entry was in the same purple > from the three dots logo, etc. >
I don't think this is easily customizable right now; it doesn't seem to be documented at all. The prompt color is set by the default LineEditREPL constructor (in REPL.jl). The result color can be changed via the environment variable JULIA_ANSWER_COLOR (black/red/green/yellow/blue/magenta/cyan/white/normal/bold) and the input color can be changed via the environment variable JULIA_INPUT_COLOR. The shell and help colors are also set in the LineEditREPL constructor. In principle, I think it would be possible to replace the REPL with a different REPL (e.g. LineEditREPL called with different colors passed to its constructor) by changing Base.active_repl in your .juliarc file (since this is loaded before the REPL is started); you'll also need to call popdisplay() to remove the original REPL from the display stack and push the new REPL display via pushdisplay(Base.REPL.REPLDisplay(active_repl)). However, this seems a bit painful...you'll have to replicate a bunch of the logic in the _start() function from base/client.jl.
