Re: How to get a useful repl with Chicken 5?

[Daniel Ortmann]

    How about: rlwrap csi
    
    It has been good to me, saving the history into ~/.csi_history

On 1/30/20 12:01 PM, Matt Welland wrote:

Line editing and saving history make using a repl much more productive for me. With chicken 4 I was able to get a useful repl with something like this sequence of calls:

(import extras) ;; might not be needed?
(import readline)
(import apropos)
;; my imports here ...

(install-history-file (get-environment-variable "HOME") ".some_history")
(current-input-port (make-readline-port "someprog> "))

(repl)

I've tried linenoise but don't see how to save the history:

(import linenoise)
(set-history-length! 300)
(load-history-from-file historyf)
(current-input-port (make-linenoise-port))
(repl)

;; (save-history-to-file historyf) ;; doesn't work :(

I've read the docs on linenoise and breadline but I'm not seeing how to get a useful editable repl.

Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated.

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