Re: Fun (Was: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available)

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't know about that, but he was actually talking about the other
> way around -- make the interpreter ignore a leading > if you're
> copy-pasting a session from an e-mail into the terminal window.

And here is a patch for that case, specially for Dirk ;)

--- lua.c       Fri Mar 28 09:17:51 2014
+++ old\lua.c   Wed Feb 26 17:27:56 2014
@@ -273,19 +273,13 @@
 /* prompt the user, read a line, and push it into the Lua stack */
 static int pushline (lua_State *L, int firstline) {
   char buffer[LUA_MAXINPUT];
-  char *b = buffer, *B;
+  char *b = buffer;
   size_t l;
   const char *prmt = get_prompt(L, firstline);
   int readstatus = lua_readline(L, b, prmt);
   if (readstatus == 0)
     return 0;  /* no input (prompt will be popped by caller) */
   lua_pop(L, 1);  /* remove prompt */
-  B = b;
-  if (*b == '>') {
-    ++b;
-    if (*b == '>')
-      ++b;
-  }
   l = strlen(b);
   if (l > 0 && b[l-1] == '\n')  /* line ends with newline? */
     b[l-1] = '\0';  /* remove it */
@@ -293,7 +287,7 @@
     lua_pushfstring(L, "return %s", b + 1);  /* change '=' to 'return' */
   else
     lua_pushstring(L, b);
-  lua_freeline(L, B);
+  lua_freeline(L, b);
   return 1;
 }