Option to disable retro console effect

[zsunberg]

Would it be possible to add an option to disable the retro console effect for printed text? By "retro console effect", I mean the lighter and darker lines in this image that move slowly downward.

My interpretation is that someone added this to discourage use of print statements by making it seem more old-fashioned and clunky. I understand this, and it is fine to have it on by default, but this degrades the user experience by being very distracting when you do have to deal with printed output. Can we get an option to turn it off when we do need to examine printed output? 🙂

[fonsp]

Hi @zsunberg !

There are always good alternatives to print statements, and Pluto's design should encourage that :) There won't be an option to turn of the visual effect, but there are many options to improve your code!

The easy alternative is to use @info(...) instead of print.

In your case, since your are displaying a table, you can create a table with DataFrames or similar, and output it in the cell. (You can also log it with @info to display the table during computation.)

If your goal is to display grid-formatted text, then check out the Julia Text function. If your Pluto cell returns a Text object, the string will be formatted monospace with original whitespace (without a retro effect).

[zsunberg]

I see, I didn't know that the logging functions like @info display differently. Thanks for the clarification.