Re: [ANN] el - an interactive shell-friendly form of Lua

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

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 11:52 AM Xavier Wang <weasley.wx@gmail.com> wrote:
> after add USERPROFILE and CD for alternatives of HOME and PWD I have
> el run on Windows, but I found some issues:
> - ^ on windows is a escape char, so I can't make a string now :(

Damn! Shells have so many special characters. I did think of using
something other than ^ - maybe @? And it should be easy enough to make
the string-escape char something new at run-time.

> - I use Lua54, which not have bit32, and thus makes the tables not a
> sequence and I can never use vars in .el file (move bit32 to last make
> it work)

Let me check with 5.4 my side....

steve d.