Multiline History

[stobias123]

The repl seems critical to me for developing policy. Statements like the below are allowed in the repl as multiline statements.

> some resource_type;
| crud := weights[resource_type];
| del := crud["delete"] * count(analysis.deletes_by_type[resource_type]);
| score := del

When I go back through history, I only get 1 line at a time. Other repls like ipython allow me to click "up" once and get the entire statement.

Things really slow down when I have to click back up through each part of a statement as shown above. I'd love for it to be a one click operation.

What is the underlying problem you're trying to solve?

By making this change, I'm hoping to improve the developer experience in the repl. Currently clicking through each is really frustrating.

Describe the ideal solution

It would behave like ipython.

[srenatus]

I think we've reached the end of our repl library. There's another issue with multi-line copy paste, https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/962, and #1503 for inputrc.

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[stobias123]

dont go stale! this is a huge quality of life imiprovement!

[philipaconrad]

Sorry @stobias123, the stale bot is pretty aggressive about making sure old issues get tagged as such. :sweat_smile:

You are correct that this would be a substantial quality-of-life improvement. I'm not sure of the precise difficulty level, but it'll likely involve ripping out and changing a bit in the REPL library.

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