From: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
To: Dhaivat Pandya <dhaivatpandya@gmail.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Readline Support for REPL
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:24:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPFanBEwEJpWDyTs0piuT3Xh144qA2P7hrmFWmjuJLa4pHOUrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG0E6CWcB+iB2B2wk4hUnYOfbe1ZEovrA7p8tKsFcg6kvhEeww@mail.gmail.com>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-10 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-09 23:37 Dhaivat Pandya
2015-08-10 9:20 ` Ralf Treinen
2015-08-10 9:24 ` Gabriel Scherer [this message]
2015-08-10 10:27 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-10 15:01 ` Dhaivat Pandya
2015-08-10 15:50 ` Francois Berenger
[not found] <20150811100018.8AA337EF27@sympa.inria.fr>
2015-08-11 10:15 ` Nils Becker
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