vlang
History and AutoCompletion, and Highlighting, and HELP in V REPL
Describe the feature
I want to can return the last inserted row in REPL by UP arrow button, also the ESC button to clear the row. It will be very nice if there is auto completion and intellisense in REPL, also color highlighting.
And may be the best feature, can be ability to receive function list and help information about the each function, etc.
Use Case
In the interactive sessions , this is very useful features.
Proposed Solution
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Other Information
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Acknowledgements
- [ ] I may be able to implement this feature request
- [ ] This feature might incur a breaking change
Version used
last
Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)
Windows
Some of these (the autocompletion, available function help and fn list), will require the current REPL to be re-implemented, so that it uses an actual V interpreter, that can keep state, instead of collecting a V program composed of all entered lines, and re-compiling/re-running it on each Enter.
@spytheman
Is there any project currently in development for the new interpreter? I ask because I'm interested in contributing! =)
The rather incomplete interpreter is in vlib/v/eval. This old PR was to make changes to it, but it closed without being merged: https://github.com/vlang/v/pull/16235
Also, it can be invoked via v interpret <file.v> though it doesn't handle too much at present.