On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:22:15AM +0000, Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 00:54:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:50:40AM +0000, Meta via > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 18:37:38 UTC, Seb wrote: > > > > After it has been in stealth mode for quite a while, I'm happy > > > > to announce that there's https://run.dlang.io > > [...] > > > This is a real life saver considering dpaste is blocked at work. > > > It gets very tedious having to create a file, invoke the compiler, > > > and run it in 3 separate steps just to test out some quick > > > snippet. > > > > Can't you just do: > > > > rdmd --eval='<insert code here>' [...] > This works for short snippets that are one-off but I usually like to > play around with a piece of code and that gets tedious as well trying > to edit it on the command line. Not to mention trying to get quotation > marks to match up and escape them correctly.
If you need to edit the code, you might as well use an editor anyway, and if you use a Real Editor (:-P) like vim or emacs you *could* just bind a single keystroke to invoking `dmd -run`. Or better yet, use the new `dmd -` to compile the code directly from the editor buffer via stdin, with `-of` set to some generic filename (I like to use /tmp/text or /tmp/x, for example), then your keybinding could be something like `| dmd - -of /tmp/test && ./test`. Then you could literally execute the editor buffer with one keystroke. And this works even when you're offline. Sadly, `dmd - -run` currently doesn't quite work just yet. I should look into fixing that. And *then* we wouldn't need to invent a temporary filename for the executable in our keybinding. (Of course, none of this negates the value of run.dlang.io -- I'm not arguing against that. It's just that testing out quick snippets seems to be a flimsy excuse to need to use it. :-P) T -- Heads I win, tails you lose.
