tangara-fw/lib/lua-repl/Roadmap.md

0.10

• Process Lua command line options with rep.lua
• Verify that it works with LuaJIT, Lua 5.0, Lua 5.2, LuaJ or something
• __pretty support for pretty print plugin
• __complete support for completion plugin
• Documentation improvements
  • More clearly reference PLUGINS.md from README.md
  • More clearly reference rep.lua from README.md
  • Make sure that autocompletion is talked up in plugins.md (and mention in readme that many default/optional behaviors are present there)
  • Make sure documentation on ~/.rep.lua is clear
  • Move docs into doc/

Future

• Plugins
  • where do plugins store values (self, storage object, etc?)
  • configuration
  • global assignments in plugins
  • we need a way to do method advice in REPL "subclasses"
  • test: using advice from within ifplugin/iffeature
  • luaish plugin
  • moonscript plugin - compile Moonscript instead of Lua
• Steal ideas from ilua
  • Variables in ilua must be declared before use
  • -L is like -l, except it automatically brings it into the global NS
  • require() wrapper that does this ↑
  • table display logic control, float precision control
  • print_handler (custom print logic for types)
    • __pretty
  • global_handler (custom lookup logic to complement strict mode)
    • easily done via a plugin
  • line_handler (custom handling of lines before being processed)
• Steal ideas from luaish
  • Shell commands (lines beginning with ., filename completion)
• Steal ideas from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop
• Steal ideas from pry, ipython, bpython, Devel::REPL, Factor REPL
• Steal ideas from https://github.com/tpope/vim-foreplay
• Async implementation
• GTK implementation
• IRC bot implementation
• Awesome library