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by nerdponx 3216 days ago
> Common Lisp's REPL

The SBCL and CCL REPLs do not support readline-style editing. This actually makes them infuriating to use outside of Emacs or some other IDE-like environment. There is definitely a market for a high-quality, implementation-independent Lisp REPL.
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flavio81 3215 days ago
> The SBCL and CCL REPLs do not support readline-style editing. This actually makes them infuriating to use outside of Emacs

TL;DR: I fail to see how this can be a problem.

Yes, but they do work fine inside Emacs (or perhaps inside other IDEs), and if i was using the SBCL command-line and needed readline-style-editing, then it was because I'm developing or debugging, so I'd be inside Emacs (or other IDE) in the first place...

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SomeHacker44 3216 days ago
rlwrap FTW
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nerdponx 3214 days ago
Also linedit. But using it still requires you to add it to your favorite implementation's init file. Would it be possible to write a "meta-REPL" using linedit? Then again, there already is a Jupyter kernel for CL, so maybe I should look into making that work for me.
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