Feature or enhancement

clear was not colorized in the REPL, but it shares the same special meaning as exit, quit, copyright, and help (commands you type without parentheses to trigger an action). Those other commands happened to be colorized already, but only because they double as site builtins, not because the REPL recognized them as commands. clear has no such builtin counterpart, so it fell through uncolored. This change introduces a dedicated command color and applies it consistently to all five.

Let's consider making a separate matcher for commands specifically, and colorize all commands, including clear. This will highlight commands differently than built-ins.

If this sounds good, lmk if you have any color preferences. I'm fine with bold cyan.

cc @ambv @pablogsal

Linked PRs

• gh-151822: Colorize commands separately in the REPL #151823