Unclear documentation to customize the history searcher in Julia 1.13

[eschnett]

I want to customize the history searcher in Julia 1.13. I want to change its colour scheme. The REPL documentation contains this section:

## Customising the history searcher

The history searcher uses the following default faces, that can be customised:

[REPL.History.search]
separator.fg  = "blue"
prefix.fg = "magenta"
selected.fg = "blue"
unselected.fg = "grey"
hint = { fg = "magenta", slant = "italic", weight ="light" }
results.inherit = "shadow"
match = { weight = "bold", underline = true }

• I assume this is for the new interactive history searcher. Is that correct?
• This is part of a toml file. Which file is this? The documentation mentions a file .julia/config/faces.toml in an earlier section – would it be the same file? (I don't think so, I tried this, but nothing happened.)
• What do these settings mean? I can use the cursor keys to move up and down through matching history entries. Is that what "selected" means? If so, I don't see anything blue there. Instead, the selected line seems to be using inverse video.

[giordano]

@tecosaur

[tecosaur]

I don't think so, I tried this, but nothing happened.

@eschnett if you could elaborate on this, that would be helpful. This should have done something (improvements/clarifications aside).

[eschnett]

I created a file .julia/config/faces.toml with the content

[REPL.History.search]
separator.fg  = "blue"
prefix.fg = "magenta"
selected.fg = "blue"
unselected.fg = "grey"
hint = { fg = "magenta", slant = "italic", weight ="light" }
results.inherit = "shadow"
match = { weight = "bold", underline = true }

I tried changing this to selected.fg = "red", or adding selected.bg = "red", or adding a syntax error into that file (to create invalid toml). Nothing had any effect, and there was no error. I restarted Julia 1.13-beta1 after each change.

[matthias314]

I think that "selected" refers to items that are selected via the TAB key. I get a blue bullet to the left of those items. With selected.fg = "red" the bullet becomes red.

[tecosaur]

That's correct, and the expected behaviour. Would active be a better name perhaps?