The rlwrap method is very cool, but I can't seem to get ctrl-C to work
(it still quits to the terminal)

any advice?

--Robert McIntyre

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mike Meyer
<mwm-keyword-googlegroups.620...@mired.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:45:01 -0800 (PST)
> tor <torgau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to activate word completion in the repl? I find myself
>> hitting tab all the time...
>
> Since nobody else mentioned it (or even offered a solution other than
> "Try my environment"), you can use rlwrap (should be available in your
> systems package manager) to run your repl, and get word completion -
> among other goodies one wants on a command line.
>
> The appropriate rlwrap invocation is:
>
> rlwrap --command clojure --complete-filenames --quote-characters='"' 
> --prompt-colour=Red
>
> followed by whatever command you use to start the repl.
>
> You'll also want to past this code into a repl running in your home
> directory:
>
> (def completions
>    (reduce concat (map (fn [ns] (keys (ns-publics ns))) (all-ns))))
>
> (defn save-completions-to [filename]
>  (with-open [f (java.io.BufferedWriter. (java.io.FileWriter. filename))]
>    (.write f (apply str (interleave completions (repeat "\n"))))))
>
> (save-completions-to ".clojure_completions")
>
> to create the list of completions for rlwrap.
>
>   <mike
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