Colours in console maxima?



Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> I've gone back to using maxima in console mode in an xterm, at least 
> temporarily.  It would be nice to have colours though: different 
> colours for prompts, input, output, help, strings etc.  Would this be 
> hard to implement?
I think it's a great idea to have a few colors to distinguish elements 
of the console interface. I wish I had thought of it myself. The 
existing external interface makes it easy to add a few colors. I've 
attached a proof-of-concept implementation, colorterm.lisp. You can 
either do
    load("colorterm.lisp");colorterm();
or stick colorterm.lisp in your $HOME/.maxima directory and add the 
above line to maxima-init.mac in that directory.

--Jim

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