Noon van der Silk

GHCi Colouriser

Behold, a colourful GHCi (install it for yourself):

This is done by using a simple little sed wrapper around the ordinary ghci --interactive, see here for the script.

Note in particular the quirk that we must capture any SIGINT that gets sent through and discard it, when we are invoking sed, otherwise sed itself will quit and our GHCi session will break.

You can use it cabal repl (being mindful of this bug) by using cabal repl --with-ghc=ghci-color. I’ve bound an alias repl to this.

(Note: original credit for this goes to rhysd)