Re: Help function for lua

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:03 PM Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:23 PM bil til wrote:

I think more like some "1 page function summary in documentation style", e.
g. if you invoke "help(print)", or "help(for)", or "help(if)".

This would be useful only for working in REPL (Read–Eval–Print Loop) such as standalone Lua interpreter.

Usually I write Lua scripts in a GUI editor, not in REPL console.

Most programmer text editors do support calltips:
https://i.imgur.com/v27nKA6.png

Do you really use REPL most of the time?

I use a text-mode editor instead of a GUI editor and I keep a REPL open in another window. It's generally faster for me to tab over to the REPL and issue a quick command than it is for me to switch to a web browser and perform a search.

/s/ adam