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Re: About REPL hook
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Daniel Hartwig |
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Re: About REPL hook |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Dec 2012 10:59:45 +0800 |
On 2 December 2012 00:31, nalaginrut <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think a colorized REPL is useful for our users.
> Will you accept a patch to 'pp' for colorized REPL? Or an easy way, a
> module with hook to do the same job, but output twice?
Perhaps rather implement this as a separate, “advanced” interface.
Think: ipython vs. python. Most of the existing repl module would be
reusable for such a task.
There are benefits to keeping the official package, shell, repl,
interface, whatsit free of unnecessary features. Such simplicity aids
in debugging, and facilitates a clear definition of language
semantics, compatibility, portability, extension, etc..
Also, are you aware of the multiple existing packages that provide
provide a Guile REPL with syntax highlighting (and *much* more)?. Try
Geiser [1] or Quack [2], both of which run inside emacs and provide
integration between file and repl buffers (i.e. run expressions
directly from file buffers).
Regards
[1] http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/
[2] http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/