Re: [ANN] luaprompt 0.3

[Rob Hoelz <rob@...>]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:54:19 +0300
Dimitris Papavasiliou <dpapavas@gmail.com> wrote:

> luaprompt is a simple library that provides a Lua command prompt
> that can be embedded in a host application. It's meant for
> applications that use Lua as a configuration or interface
> language and can therefore benefit from an interactive prompt for
> debugging or regular use.
> 
> Also included is luap, an interactive interpreter which tries to
> mimic the standard lua interpreter as much as possible while
> providing the extra set of features described below. Some
> tweaking of the makefile may be required to get it to build.
> 
> luaprompt features:
> 
>      * Readline-based input with history and completion: In
>        particular all keywords, global variables and table
>        accesses (with string or integer keys) can be completed in
>        addition to readline's standard file completion.
> 
>      * Persistent command history (retained across sessions).
> 
>      * Proper value pretty-printing for interactive use.
> 
>      * Color highlighting of error messages and variable printouts.
> 
> This release includes a couple of pretty-printing and completion
>   improvements the most important of which perhaps is that luaprompt
> now always honours the __tostring metamethod if one exists when 
> pretty-printing.  This can be useful when working with custom data
> types implemented with tables or userdata.
> 
> You can find more information as well as a download link at
> luaprompt's homepage:
> 
> http://www.nongnu.org/techne/lua/luaprompt/
> 
> If your local mirror hasn't picked up the file yet and the link
> is broken you can try this link:
> 
> http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/techne/luaprompt_0.3.tar.gz
> 
> Dimitris
> 

This sounds very similar to my project, lua-repl.</shameless-plug>

-Rob

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