OCaml console improvements

[dbuenzli]

A few things that could be improved in the OCaml console

• [ ] Error reporting highlighting (note that #use does a good job at this as per built-in toplevel support)
• [ ] WYSWYG history management
• [ ] Completion (upstream ?)
• [ ] Toplevel printer story (this should likely be solved upstream)
• [ ] A worfklow for app specific toplevel init ?
• [ ] See if we can extend #use to act over URLs.

[hhugo]

What is the toplevel printer story ? By completion, you mean completion in the ocaml top loop ?

[dbuenzli]

Note when I meant upstream, I meant upstream in ocaml not in js_of_ocaml.

In general I think we are not well served by the toploop APIs upstream and that's where most of the improvements should go. Since it then benefits a whole range of derived projects.

What is the toplevel printer story ?

Implementing this attribute scheme in ocaml for automatically installing toplevel printers.

By completion, you mean completion in the ocaml top loop ?

Yes. E.g. a trie on the ids of loaded cmis, or maybe even try to summon merlin at some point. I'd also be interested in having something for that in down, see here.

[hhugo]

Thanks for the clarification