Laço

A better REPL for lua. This was created mainly for luajit because the default interactive mode, better known as the REPL, was pretty bare bones. You can't move left or right in the current line if wanted to edit the line, and there is no history for repeating commands easily. With laco you can actually do that, and I also believe that that regular lua REPL can as well.

Features

• Printing of tables instead of just the table address.

> {foo=true, bar=42}
{ foo = true
, bar = 42
}
> {1,2,3,4}
{1, 2, 3, 4}

• In memory history, so pressing up will go to the previous line.
• Command mode (use :help to see the list of commands)

This is still in early development so there isn't much so far, but I think its enough to use a replacement (atleast for luajit users).

Laço?

In Portuguese, laco mean loop. Since Lua is a Portuguese name, and a REPL is a read eval print loop, the name was born.

Building

Since laco depends on linenoise, I don't think this will work for Windows terminals, but nevertheless, here are the step on building.

Denpendencies (not included):

• cmake
• Lua or Luajit

Note: This is for regular lua, to enable luajit you need to replace. cmake .. with cmake -DLACO_USE_LUAJIT=on ... Also if you are using anything lua 5.2+, I'm not sure if this will work since I've only tested on luajit which is currently 5.1.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/sourrust/laco.git
cd laco
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

The binary will be located in build/bin and it can be run from there.