utop/CHANGES.md

1.19 (2016-04-07)

• allow to configure the external editor with UTop.set_external_editor
• add UTop.set_margin_function to allow users to set the margin for the toplevel outcome. It is 80 by default
• better for quoted strings ({|...|})
• add a #pwd directive
• experimental support for running utop in the middle of a program with UTop_main.interact
• fix Async integration (automatic waiting of _ Deferred.t value). The new version is more robust against future change in Async
• fix use of the non-existing replace-in-string function in the emacs mode (Syohei Yoshida)
• fallback to Latin-1 for invalid UTF-8 sequences in the compiler output

1.18.2 (2016-03-02)

• fix compatibility with OCaml 4.03

1.18.1 (2015-11-03)

• fix compatibility with findlib 1.5.6

1.18 (2015-06-23)

• emace mode improvements (Mads Hartmann Jensen)
  • add utop-minor-mode to make integration with major modes cleaner
  • clean-up of the elisp code
• add UTop.end_and_accept_current_phrase to avoid typing ;; at the end of every phrases
• fix compatibility with OCaml trunk

1.17 (2014-12-12)

• re-export Config.load_path as UTop.load_path (Peter Zotov)
• enable utop-command to be buffer-local (Mads Hartmann Jensen)
• fix 4.01 compatibility (Peter Zotov)

1.16 (2014-10-20)

• make camlp4 support optional
• require OCaml 4.01.0 or newer
• implement wrapper for -safe-string

1.15 (2014-08-30)

• fix compatibility with OCaml 4.02.0

1.14 (2014-07-05)

• fix compatibility with OCaml 4.00.1 and earlier

1.13 (2014-07-04)

• don't try to colorize the output when there is too much
• add auto-completion for the #ppx directive
• add support for -ppx, -dparsetree and -dsource
• fix compatiblity with OCaml 4.02
• update pa_optcomp
• do not display the camlp4 welcome message

1.12 (2014-04-21)

• supports -require for scripts
• support for React 1.0.0
• make utop.el compatible with melpa: http://melpa.milkbox.net

1.11 (2014-02-11)

• update the async hook following the renaming of Async_core to Async_kernel
• fix tab completion not working on some emacs
• complete #load_rec the same way as #load

1.10 (2013-12-10)

• add the -require command line argument to specify packages on the command line

1.9 (2013-11-26)

• automatically load all files in $OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH/autoload at startup. Can be disabled with autoload: false in ~/.utoprc or -no-autoload.
• fix #38: handle errors from custom camlp4 ast filters
• fix #7: avoid a stack overflow in UTop_lexer

1.8 (2013-10-25)

• handle new syntax errors
• extend #typeof to values and modules. Thanks to Thomas Refis for this feature

1.7 (2013-08-08)

• fix compilation with ocaml < 4.01

1.6 (2013-08-07)

• hide topfind messages by default
• more predefined prompts available via #utop_prompt_XXX
• fix a bug in #require when passing multiple packages
• display errors in ~/.lambda-term-inputrc nicely
• doc update
• fix an issue when using first-class modules

1.5 (2013-04-28)

• when evaluating a region/buffer in emacs, evaluate all phrases instead of just the first one. Thanks to Matthias Andreas Benkard for this feature
• change the default prompt from # to $ to match the standard toplevel
• add the option UTop.show_box to allow one to hide the completion bar
• enhance the lwt/async hooks for automatically waiting on a thread/deferred. Hooks were not triggered when the type of the expression was a type alias

1.4 (2013-03-09)

• hide identifiers starting with _. This can be disabled with UTop.set_hide_reserved false.
• automatically load camlp4 parsing (with original syntax) when trying to load a syntax extension
• fix a small bug when using camlp4, causing an exception to be raised when pressing Enter in the middle of a comment

1.3 (2013-01-29)

• allow to automatically wait for ascync deferred values
• added the -short-paths options for OCaml >= 4.01.0 (and make it the default)

1.2.1 (2012-07-31)

• fix: do not expunge Toploop
• install a non-expunged version of utop: utop-full

1.2 (2012-07-30)

• ocaml 4.00 compatibility
• prevent findlib from being initialized twice
• better highlighting of errors
• automatically insert Lwt_main.run for toplevel expressions of type 'a Lwt.t
• better camlp4 support
  • parse quotations and antiquotations to handle completion inside them
  • better support revised syntax
• emacs mode improvements
  • various fixes
  • highlight errors
  • add a menu
  • add interactive list of findlib packages
  • packages can be pre-loaded via the file variable utop-package-list
  • better tuareg integration
  • typerex integration
  • allow to complete using the toplevel environment in a tuareg buffer
  • allow to change the utop command
  • use the same history as the terminal mode
  • follow output of ocaml

1.1 (2010-08-06)

• add completion on labels
• add completion on methods
• smarter completion on record fields
• fix a bug in the lexer
• improvement for the emacs mode:
  • now pressing Tab really complete input
  • when sending input from a tuareg buffer, the cursor follow the end of buffer in all utop windows
  • fix usage of threads
  • add help
  • add manual pages
  • show more information in the prompt:
    • show the current value of the macro counter
    • show the nnumber of key pressed since the beginning of a macro when recording a macro
    • show intermediate key sequence
  • better support for light colors terminals
  • add colors for module name and directives
  • add UTop.smart_accept to send only lines terminating with a ;; token
  • search for compiler libraries at configure time
  • add a script to install compiler libraries
  • fix compatibility with ocaml 3.13