How to have colored REPL for 'sbt console'?

Question

From Scala 2.11.4 onwards you can get a colored REPL by invoking scala -Dscala.color. My question is whether it is possible to get the same colored REPL when I call sbt console within my SBT project?

Answer 1

starting from scala 2.12.2, the repl is colored by default; so you just need to set the scalaVersion property in ~/.sbt/user.sbt file:

scalaVersion := "2.12.2"

Answer 2

In the same way:

sbt -Dscala.color console

This also works if you just invoke sbt -Dscala.color and then later jump into console.

Answer 3

Put this into your ~/.sbt/0.13/user.sbt:

initialize ~= { _ =>
  val ansi = System.getProperty("sbt.log.noformat", "false") != "true"
  if (ansi) System.setProperty("scala.color", "true")
}

Answer 4

Create a ~/.sbt/0.13/colour.sbt with:

initialize ~= (_ => if (ConsoleLogger.formatEnabled) sys.props("scala.color") = "true")