How do we customize the color scheme for ipdb?

Related: #50, #144, #57, #1

By searching around, I understand (probably incorrectly) that ipdb should use ipython’s color scheme by default. And that ipython use pygments styles.

So I tried the following:

• ipython profile create
• pygmentize -L style
• vim profile_default/ipython_config

  c.TerminalInteractiveShell.highlighting_style = 'tomorrownight'
  

Within the same virtualenv, I get colors within ipython, but not within ipdb:

The prompt seems to be another matter, and I haven’t figured out how to change its color yet.

Therefore, I have 2 related questions:

• Why doesn’t ipdb pick up the ipython pygment style? Else how can I override the ipdb shell colors?
• How can I modify the ipdb prompt color?

Thanks for your help in advance!

[gotcha]

I have never tried to customize IPython or ipdb colors myself.

I am sorry I cannot help and hope you’ll report here if you succeeds.

[zacharesmer]

I went down this rabbit hole yesterday, and the solution does lie within IPython. IPython uses two different color schemes: one is Pygments, and the other one is changed through c.InteractiveShell.colors in the config file. For the second one there are very limited options and they only use basic 8-bit colors, presumably for compatibility. Using different ANSI escape codes, you can get a lot of much nicer colors depending on what your terminal supports.

If you compare this to master, you can see all the files that need to be changed to add the theme. It’s probably possible to do all of that through the config file, but I’m not sure how.