repl-edit

Use your text editor to edit commands in Node's repl.

Installation

npm install repl-edit

Usage

You can fire up a repl with editing capabilities by running node-repl-edit or extend an existing repl session by typing require('repl-edit').extend(global).

Commands

edit

The first time you run edit() in a repl a temporary file is created, specific to that session, and opened in your editor. Type away and then save and close the file when you're done. The file will be loaded and executed at that time.

run

To run whatever command you've been working on without editing it again type run().

setEditor

setEditor('mate -w') will change your editor to TextMate for this session. Note that this command changes the environment variable EDITOR for the repl process.

stash

stash('/path/to/a/file') will save your command to the named file.

unstash

unstash('/path/to/a/file') will restore the contents of that file for you to run and/or edit.

Future

Instead of polluting the global namespace with functions I'd rather extend Node's repl to allow user-defined dot commands (just like .break and .clear), and then use that capability to provide commands like .edit and .stash <filename>.

The first time edit() is run in a repl instead of an empty file the command should be seeded with the last command that was executed.

License

MIT (see the file named LICENSE)

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