Is it possible to highlight the text color when typing?

[dickens88]

Dear all,

When the user typing at interactive command (by cmd2), can the keywords typed by the user be highlighted? just like in some linux shell terminal.

you can see the keyword ls is highlighted and the params after it will has different color.

but when you run into a python interactive command (by cmd2), the color is gone.

please guide me if there is any way to make it by cmd2 or with some other solutions. many thanks.

[kmvanbrunt]

Kali may be using a readline init file to color its text.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-Init-File.html

Try providing an init file to a cmd2 app using readline.read_init_file().
https://docs.python.org/3/library/readline.html

I can't provide any more support than that since I've never worked with those files.

[dickens88]

@kmvanbrunt thank you so much for your reply. it's not a easy work for me, but anyway it's a useful information :)