[IPython-dev] Colors in ipython

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 11:37:43 EST 2011


On 1/21/11 12:34 AM, Ratul wrote:
> There is no problem. But I was searching for other python IDE's and all, and
> found a lot of them (including dreampie, stani's) have colors. Is the problem
> being it is in shell?

Recoloring code as you type in a terminal window requires a more sophisticated 
implementation using curses or something similar. It's typically much easier for 
GUIs to do this. Now that the core has been refactored to make implementing GUI 
frontends easier, it should be easier to make a curses frontend that recolors as 
you type, too.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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