utop/CHANGES.md

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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