Colorize console output in Intellij products
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I have a custom script with a default output. I'd like to colorize errors, warnings and infos. There's a way to do that in Intellij products (IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm)?
Console Solutions
Solution 1 - Console
It has been a while, but in case you are still interested, there is a new plugin for console colorizing: Grep Console.
Works nicely with Intellij 12.
Make sure you restart IntelliJ after installing the plugin. After you will see the plugin icon in the top left corner (white-red icon).
Solution 2 - Console
It's not supported right now (at least not for all the run configuration types). Please vote for:
- IDEA-23976 Add ability to color/highlight console output
- IDEA-69880 Support for colors in console output
Console output of the external tools is fixed to supports ANSI escape sequences to color text.
Solution 3 - Console
The colors configurations, mentioned in the other responses, work, if you run a regular application and you set the following VM option:
-Dspring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS
Solution 4 - Console
Latest IntelliJ, PyCharm and PhpStorm have limited support for console output colorization.
Preferences > Editor > Colors & Fonts > Console Colors
Solution 5 - Console
If you are using spring boot, use Spring Boot to start your application instead of general application. Color will show up. No need to do anything else. It works for me.
