When can i haz colorz :) ? about jq HOT 8 CLOSED

This does sound handy, but definitely a task for later.

Are you thinking of syntactic JSON highlighting (make all object keys vomit-green?) or grep-style context highlighting (make the thing I was searching for bright red?)

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well, I meant more along the lines of syntactic highlighting. (afaik, grep is already configurable by the user )

Something smart like pjson ( http://igorgue.com/pjson/ ) or Ruby's awesome_print ( http://www.rubyinside.com/awesome_print-a-new-pretty-printer-for-your-ruby-objects-3208.html ) would be really sweet.

Sane defaults that uses the ANSI Terminal colors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors ) would be nice, because then every terminal could override those with their own theme colors.

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Hrm, that doesn't sound too bad. I'd go with something more like pjson than awesome_print; awesome_print looks amazing but it's output only makes sense to a Ruby programmer and it isn't valid JSON.

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yes please

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Yep. I understand. just meant awesome_print for an example. pjson like formatting would be great.

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COLORS PLEASEEE!!!

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Why not use something like ccze instead and piping jq into it? If the -A switch is supplied, raw ANSI ist used, perfect to pass it to something like less (with -R).

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ccze looks great, but I'd really love if this was built into jq. What I love about jq is that it doesn't need runtime env. like perl/ruby/python, else there are prolly tons of tools out there.

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