From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA24174; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:47:55 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22697 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:47:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from shell5.ba.best.com (shell5.ba.best.com [206.184.139.136]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5EFlrj10303 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:47:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (bpr@localhost) by shell5.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) with ESMTP id IAA18324; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:47:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Rogoff To: Jacques Garrigue cc: skaller@ozemail.com.au, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml toplevel and readline In-Reply-To: <20010614154525K.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Jacques Garrigue wrote: > From: John Max Skaller > > I find the ocaml top level 'ocaml' very clumbsy to use, > > compared with, say, Python's top level, because it > > doesn't understand line editing. Any chance of optionally > > building it with gnu_readline? > > But there are plenty of external alternatives: using emacs, using > ocamlbrowser's shell, using ledit. > ledit is a tool written in camlp4 by Daniel de Raglaudre > which allows line editing on any program. > http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/index-english.html > Linking the editing code of ledit with the toplevel might also be an > option. There's also ILE, which is available at one of the OCaml sites. I used to use ILE, but then I switched to ledit, since I'd like to have an "as much OCaml as possible" tool chain. But ile is pretty good, and may even be on your *nix system already. -- Brian ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr