Re: [Caml-list] Readline Support for REPL

[Dhaivat Pandya <dhaivatpandya@gmail.com>]

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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?

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
wrote:

> ...there also is "ledit" as support for the toplevel-usage.
>
> Maybe utop is what I could try also...
>
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> Zitat von Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> (Mon, 10 Aug 2015
> 11:24:15 +0200)
>
> Note that utop already provides these features and much more:
>>   https://github.com/diml/utop
>>
>> I'm not sure improving the toplevel is a good investment of your efforts,
>> given that there exists such a nice alternative, and that the switching
>> costs are basically zero for toplevels.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Dhaivat Pandya <dhaivatpandya@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if readline support for the OCaml toplevel would be
>>> appreciated. I understand that running the repl with "rlwrap" solves a
>>> similar problem but if we were to implement readline support, we may
>>> later
>>> on build on it with tab-completion, etc.
>>>
>>> If it is needed, I would be glad to implement support.
>>>
>>> -
>>> Dhaivat
>>>
>>>
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