On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre@bergel.eu> wrote:
> please
> try it out and let me know what you would expect from a real Smalltalk
> scripting environment.


Something that would really push me in using Coral is an intelligent
prompt. A list of the things the prompt should do:
� � � �- crawling into the history of typed commands using up and down key
arrow
� � � �- tab completion (classes and method name)
� � � �- colored output
� � � �- Ctl-D to quit
� � � �- Keybinds:
� � � � � � � �* Ctlr-A beginning of the line
� � � � � � � �* Ctrl-E end of the line
� � � � � � � �* Alt- -> / Alt- <- to jump words


I modified REPLServer to do all of the above except for CTRL-d, colour and Alt-word skipping. I originally made it so that I could do stuff that breaks Morphic then still be able to use and recover the image.

REPLServer uses telnet but can be modified to use other input/output mechanisms such as stdin/stdout or Display/EventSensor.

REPLServer is loadable in Squeak 3.9, 3.10 using the Packages Universe, or http://www.squeaksource.com/SecureSqueak (I should really put it in its own project at some stage). Its documentation is available as "online help" from the CLI.

Gulik.

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