Ledit (was Re: [Caml-list] how to use a module) (fwd)

[Hal Daume III]

There was some discussion about something like this a while ago...would
this solve our problems?

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 Hal Daume III                                   | hdaume@isi.edu
 "Arrest this man, he talks in maths."           | www.isi.edu/~hdaume

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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:49:22 -0400
From: Neel Krishnaswami <neelk@alum.mit.edu>
To: Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>
Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: Ledit (was Re: [Caml-list] how to use a module)

Matt Gushee writes:
> 
> Okay, then, I have some questions about ledit:
> 
>   How do you use it? I have actually tried ledit 2 or 3 times, but if
>     I invoke the 'ledit' executable that is created, e.g.
> 
>       $ ./ledit
> 
>     I get ... something ... some sort of shell-like environment, I
>     guess. But all it does is echo whatever I type. And when I read your
>     post, I downloaded it again to be sure, but the same thing happened
>     again. I also tried making a custom toplevel with ledit, but the
>     result seems to be identical to the plain ledit executable.

Do this

  $ ledit ocaml

in order to get line editing in the ocaml toplevel. The really cool
thing about ledit is that it adds line editing to *any* program.

-- 
Neel Krishnaswami
neelk@alum.mit.edu

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