Hi Tim,

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 11:23 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> Although Eliot's little REPl thing for image testing is cool, it is
> minimal and would need extending to be generally useful.


+0.  It's not cool and it would indeed need extending.


> I took a quick amble down the rabbit-hole to see what other REPL things
> people have made for Squeak and it looks to me that the most advanced one
> was the REPL package within www.squeaksource.com/SecureSqueak


Was.  Pharo have something much more up-to-date.  Take a look at that.
They have full curses integration so colored output and the possibility of
doing an emacs-like input editor.


>
>
> It's quite old and includes classes like ANSIStream (which I'm going to
> guess was a pre-i18n work way of dealing with the Squeak charset issues).
> It apparently "Requires Comanche (or at least ConnectionHandler and
> SocketStream)." to quote from the swiki page where I found out about it (
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2648)
>
> A modernised version would be a nice thing to have. I'm pretty much
> certain I've heard of work on a 'squeak shell' too - which I suspect would
> be Craig? Am I remembering something about 'squish'? - but I can't find
> anything right now.
>

I would look at the Pharo system.

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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