luax
luax is a Lua interpreter and REPL based on Lua 5.4, augmented with some useful packages. It is also a "compiler" that produces standalone executables from Lua scripts. (by CDSoft)
rlwrap
A readline wrapper (by hanslub42)
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9.5 | 1.9 | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
luax
Posts with mentions or reviews of luax.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
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A good REPL solution
LuaX (https://github.com/CDSoft/luax). “luax is a Lua interpreter and REPL based on Lua 5.4.4, augmented with some useful packages. luax can also produces standalone executables from Lua scripts.”
rlwrap
Posts with mentions or reviews of rlwrap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.
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Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
Possibly more universal, but there are also tools like rlwrap [1] that adds readline support to programs that don't have it. From the docs apparently the readline library ships a similar tool ootb nowadays but I haven't tried that and just noticed now when I wanted to share the rlwrap link.
[1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
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A good REPL solution
Otherwise I use rlwrap, which is a general purpose readline wrapper: https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap It's pretty basic stuff, but makes basic line editing less painful, & adds history support.
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Keyboard Shortcuts every Command Line Hacker should know about GNU Readline
Friends if you dont know: you can add readline support to LOTS of things, especially custom scripts and tools with a prompt by just calling the program with rlwrap.
> rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU Readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command.
https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
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Linux/Ubuntu Commands To Speed Up Your Daily Work
rlwrap for any interactive command will give it a history. You can even build a file to have tab completion. https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
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Which personal aliases do you use, that may be useful to others?
rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU Readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command, something that tclsh, wish and sbcl don't provide.
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14 great tips to make amazing CLI applications
This can be as easy as wrapping a simple stdin/stdout loop with rlwrap, all the way to using full featured TUI libraries like bubbletea (golang), textual (python) or imtui (c++).
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Unable to use cltr r (readline reverse search) in R with macos
You could always use rlwrap (installable via homebrew). You would launch R with rlwrap R in that case. However, I suspect there is something else missing, because it appears that the R repl usually includes readline support. Thus my questions about installation method and OS.
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Build and run Clojure projects. CLI, tools.deps and deps.edn guide
As you can see ,clj, behind the scenes, wraps a call to $bin_dir/clojure with the rlwrap tool. rlwrap provides a better command-line editing experience.
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Racket with cross-platform read-line
If read-line functionality is missing from languages that provide repls or command line interpreters, rlwrap has always served me well on linux. Many distros provide their own package too.