Feature request: automatically open the REPL

[fangly]

Hi, It would be terrific if SendREPL would automatically take care of opening a REPL if it is not already open. At the moment, every time Sublime starts, I have to start my REPL of choice before SendREPL can work. I recognize this is mabe not trivial to do in a corss-platform way. I find the SublimeREPL to be a nice backend since it is integrated in Sublime, and perhaps it would be easy to open at least this REPL automatically? Cheers, Florent

[randy3k]

It is not so easy to implement as there is a compatibility issue for different platforms and operation systems. Furthermore, a REPL environment can be independent of the terminal emulator. For instance, one may be using tmux, but they have their choice of an emulator to execute tmux.

Personally, I think we should deprecate support of SublimeREPL as it is not being developed for a while.

[fangly]

Thanks for the info. I did not realize that SublimeREPL is not actively developed.

[JanaJarecki]

I support the feature that SendCode opens a program automatically, as pointed out in #32. This would be fantastic and extremely simplify the workflow.

I see that implementation difficulty, such as the location detection, makes this a challenge. Would a preliminary work around probably be to let the user input the path to the program manually?