# Packages for colored REPL output?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-for-colored-repl-output/132925>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** repl, ohmyrepl\
**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-for-colored-repl-output/132925 "2025-10-06T20:06:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Boyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nathan_boyer/32/14825_2.png) [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-for-colored-repl-output/132925/1 "2025-10-06T20:06:04Z")

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I use OhMyREPL.jl for colored input, but it doesn’t do any coloring of the output. I am consistently missing the “e” in my calculation outputs (e.g. `5.105088062083414e6`) since I only care about 3-5 significant digits and then my brain ignores the rest. It would be nice if it were a different color; I imagine this should be possible by depending on StyledStrings.jl?

(Even better would be to complete [set\_display\_precision!(n) in REPL to control floating-point display by stevengj · Pull Request #52543 · JuliaLang/julia](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/52543) to customize display precision, but that seems to be stalled.)

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Boyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nathan_boyer/32/14825_2.png) [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-for-colored-repl-output/132925/2 "2026-09-11T14:22:52Z")

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My [GitHub issue to OhMyREPL.jl](https://github.com/KristofferC/OhMyREPL.jl/issues/389) for this feature was just closed as out of scope given its recent feature reduction.  
I am now requesting it directly to Julia in [Add syntax highlighting to REPL output · Issue #63118 · JuliaLang/julia](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/63118).