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From: Nils Becker <nils.becker@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Readline Support for REPL
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:15:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C9CB25.5060302@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150811100018.8AA337EF27@sympa.inria.fr>


> Even though the utop projects provides readline features, wouldn't it
> make sense to have basic feature support on the default repl for the
> language?

> Once you try utop, you never go back. ;)

for me the one thing that is sorely lacking in utop is a vi editing mode
like readline has. once you've started to use the shell with nice text
editing support it feels like a handicap to not have it.

       reply	other threads:[~2015-08-11 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20150811100018.8AA337EF27@sympa.inria.fr>
2015-08-11 10:15 ` Nils Becker [this message]
2015-08-09 23:37 Dhaivat Pandya
2015-08-10  9:20 ` Ralf Treinen
2015-08-10  9:24 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-10 10:27   ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-10 15:01     ` Dhaivat Pandya
2015-08-10 15:50       ` Francois Berenger

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