Re: [Caml-list] ocaml top-level line editing script

["\"Markus W. Weißmann\"" <markus.weissmann@in.tum.de>]

rlwrap? [1] Its probably already available through your favorite package manger.


-Markus

[1] http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/

On 4 Jul 2012, at 19:06, Aaron Bohannon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> One thing that is missing from the OCaml top level loop is line
> editing features.  I used to use a wrapper program called "ledit" that
> added readline support, but I never seem to have it installed on my
> machine when I need it, and moreover, I have started to get used to
> the more flexible line editing of zsh.
> 
> After some poking around, I found that it's fairly straightforward to
> wrap any REPL with a zsh script and get zsh line editing capabilities,
> which includes multi-line support (e.g., so you can fix a typo you
> made three lines back).
> 
> I'm attaching the script I hacked together, in case it is useful to
> anyone else.  It works great for me, but it was not written to be
> generic and robust, so YMMV.  You must use ctrl-D to exit cleanly -- I
> didn't bother adding support for "#quit".  I'm sure someone could make
> many improvements to it if they had more patience for zsh scripting
> than I do.
> 
> - Aaron
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