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From: "\"Markus W. Weißmann\"" <markus.weissmann@in.tum.de>
To: Aaron Bohannon <bohannon@seas.upenn.edu>
Cc: OCaml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml top-level line editing script
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:56:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91B9F38E-6553-42A5-AA63-F715983C3136@in.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANghcebYMmAMwvooRAPm2QONn2pCBEzwUgF29K5PN+3cWr1Y6Q@mail.gmail.com>

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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-- 
Markus Weißmann, M.Sc.
Technische Universität München
Institut für Informatik
Boltzmannstr. 3
D-85748 Garching
Germany
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-04 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-04 17:06 Aaron Bohannon
2012-07-04 17:56 ` "Markus W. Weißmann" [this message]
2012-07-05  1:46   ` Aaron Bohannon
2012-07-05  4:25     ` Aaron Bohannon
2012-07-04 18:24 ` rixed
2012-07-04 21:19   ` Anthony Tavener

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