Colorize console output in Intellij products

It's not supported right now (at least not for all the run configuration types). Please vote for:

• IDEA-23976 Add ability to color/highlight console output
• IDEA-69880 Support for colors in console output

Console output of the external tools is fixed to supports ANSI escape sequences to color text.

It has been a while, but in case you are still interested, there is a new plugin for console colorizing: Grep Console.

Works nicely with Intellij 12.
Make sure you restart IntelliJ after installing the plugin. After you will see the plugin icon in the top left corner (white-red icon).