We should enable color output in the shell scripts so that programmatic launching still gets the plain old version, but users by default get the nicer experience.
To enable it globally for sbt console you can create a ~/.sbt/0.13/colour.sbt with:
initialize ~= (_ => if (ConsoleLogger.formatEnabled) sys.props("scala.color") = "true")
Note that some environments still call the scripts that don't really want colorization, e.g. emacs, sublime.
PR: scala/scala#5663 :)
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To enable it globally for sbt console you can create a
~/.sbt/0.13/colour.sbtwith: