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I've programmed in the past and I remember having a terminal that would change the colors of words depending on their function (different color for variables, different color if I imported something etc). How is this accomplished in general? I installed Pygments but it seems that just does it for text files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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  • You're probably looking for PSReadLine. Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 17:21

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Powershell ISE with Powershell Version 4.0+ Includes some good coloring features for interactive scripting.

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Powershell v2 ships with Windows 7, v4 can be downloaded and ISE is on the machine already. Current powershell version is v5, but beware-- some software like Server 2008 R2 running Exchange 2010 is built on v2, and a lot of the cmdlets won't work for v3-v5 without PS-Sessions.

In case you were curious about coloring output to the host, you can just do

Write-Host "my string" -fore 'color' -back 'color'

If you want a fully-fledged powershell IDE, you can purchase SAPIEN Powershell Studio which also wraps scripts in Windows Forms, can build MSI packages and similar things. If you're a hard core powershell kind of guy, it may be worth your time if making GUI powershell applications.

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Powershell 5 has syntax highlighting for the regular shell (and of course ISE) out of the box.
@bluuf That's because it ships with PSReadLine.

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