Is there a colored REPL for Clojure?

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thnetos picture thnetos · Mar 19, 2010 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

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 automatic coloring of the REPL?

Example IRB:

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Answer

Venantius picture Venantius · Feb 5, 2015

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:enter image description here

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