Change text color in Common Lisp REPL

Question

I would like to control the color of the text displayed in Common Lisp. Something like this pseudo code:

(print-color (:red "hello") (:blue "world"))

Can this be done? I use SBCL and my repl is inside emacs. Thank!

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S4m Oct 6 '13 at 12:37

1 answer

Salaltygg · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-06T16:06:03+0000

You can use the ANSI delete code to print colored texts:

(format t "~c[31mabc~c[0m~%" #\ESC #\ESC) ; this prints a red "abc" for most modern terminals

I'm not sure if this works in slime though.