Re: About REPL hook

[nalaginrut]

On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 10:59 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 2 December 2012 00:31, nalaginrut <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think a colorized REPL is useful for our users.
> > Will you accept a patch to 'pp' for colorized REPL? Or an easy way, a
> > module with hook to do the same job, but output twice?
> 
> Perhaps rather implement this as a separate, “advanced” interface.
> Think: ipython vs. python.  Most of the existing repl module would be
> reusable for such a task.
> 
> There are benefits to keeping the official package, shell, repl,
> interface, whatsit free of unnecessary features.  Such simplicity aids
> in debugging, and facilitates a clear definition of language
> semantics, compatibility, portability, extension, etc..
> 
> Also, are you aware of the multiple existing packages that provide
> provide a Guile REPL with syntax highlighting (and *much* more)?.
> Try
> Geiser [1] or Quack [2], both of which run inside emacs and provide
> integration between file and repl buffers (i.e. run expressions
> directly from file buffers).
> 

Not all people use Emacs, although I use it. So neither Geiser nor Quack
is the same case here. 
My effort is to color the result in REPL only, even for a non-Emacs
user, which is a friendly feature for Guilers.

We know Ruby has many IDEs to do the syntax highlight, but it also has a
gem named 'wirble' to color the result in the REPL.

I think such a REPL-plugin is easy to hack for Guile in few hours, so
I'm going to give it a try.  
The only problem is to output twice seems ugly if I write an independent
module without a patch for 'pp'. Or I don't want to modify the current
REPL code personally.

> Regards
> 
> [1] http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/
> [2] http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/
>