ColorizedInspect

Provides an inspect that has syntax highlighting.

Usage

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.