ColorizedInspect

Provides an inspect that has syntax highlighting.

Usage

Or in the shortend version:

In this example were used the default colors for this library and the shell used the default linux colors.

Why?

There are times where you are inspecting a biiig data structure, and a bit of syntax highlighting would help.

Why not use IO.inspect/2 directly?

The IO.inspect/2 function allows you to pass an :syntax_colors option that changes the syntax coloring of the thing you are inspected. Thing is, I don't want to paste a colorscheme every time I want to inspect something. So you don't have to

• Read the deep nested documentation (sometimes it's not even documented. There's no reference to what are the possible keys to the colorscheme list)
• Create a colorscheme
• Create code so you can reuse the colorscheme

I made this.

Configuration

If you want to change the colors:

config :colorized_inspect,
        [
          number: :red,
          atom: :green,
          regex: :white,
          tuple: :yellow,
          map: :blue,
          list: :magenta
        ]

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding colorized_inspect to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:colorized_inspect, "~> 1.0.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/colorized_inspect.