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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Readline Support for REPL

On 08/10/2015 05:01 PM, Dhaivat Pandya wrote:
> 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. ;)

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Oliver Bandel
> <oliver@first.in-berlin.de <mailto:oliver@first.in-berlin.de>> wrote:
>
>     ...there also is "ledit" as support for the toplevel-usage.
>
>     Maybe utop is what I could try also...
>
>
>     Zitat von Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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