On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:32:11AM +0200, Peter Soetens wrote:
> I was writing this small patch for rttlua that would display how to
> quit properly (see attachment). Although I think we should consider

Thanks, fine with me!

> including it, I was wondering if an 'interactive' lua mode wouldn't be
> better... There's ilua.lua here :
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/InteractiveLua
> which also introduces a 'quit' statement. That in combination with a
> lua-driven completer like https://github.com/rrthomas/lua-rlcompleter/
> could effectively eliminate the last hurdle for pushing the
> TaskBrowser from its throne.

The command-line completion would be very nice and probably not very
hard to do either, patches and Cookbook recipies would be very
welcome!

I'm a bit more cautions about ilua (not sure about how well it is
tested and wether it is maintained at all) but if we mark it as
experimental for some time...

> I would prefer to start such program as 'irttlua' in the same way as
> ipython and irb exist. The -i option would then be assumed and syntax
> coloring would then also be on by default...

That would be nice!

Thanks!
Markus

On Jun 18, 2011, at 18:32 , Peter Soetens wrote:

> I was writing this small patch for rttlua that would display how to
> quit properly (see attachment). Although I think we should consider
> including it, I was wondering if an 'interactive' lua mode wouldn't be
> better... There's ilua.lua here :
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/InteractiveLua
> which also introduces a 'quit' statement. That in combination with a
> lua-driven completer like https://github.com/rrthomas/lua-rlcompleter/
> could effectively eliminate the last hurdle for pushing the
> TaskBrowser from its throne.

So is it a long-term goal to get rid of the TaskBrowser?
S