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\" utop.1
\" ------
\" Copyright : (c) 2011, Jeremie Dimino <jeremie@dimino.org>
\" Licence : BSD3
\"
\" This file is a part of utop.
.TH UTOP 1
.SH NAME
utop \- Universal toplevel for OCaml
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B utop
[
.I options
]
[
.I object-files
]
[
.I script-file
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B utop
is an enhanced toplevel for OCaml with many features, including context
sensitive completion.
When you start
.B utop
what you see is the prompt followed by a bar containing words. This is
the completion bar: it contains the possible completion and is updated
as you type. The highlighted word in the completion bar is the
selected word. You can navigate using the keys \fBM-Left\fR and \fBM-Right\fR
and select one completion using \fBM-down\fR. Here \fBM\fR represents the meta key,
which is \fBAlt\fR on most systems. You can configure these bindings in the file
.I ~/.config/lambda-term-inputrc
- see
.BR lambda-term-inputrc (5)
for details.
\fButop\fR supports completion on:
* directives and directive arguments
* identifiers
* record fields
* variants
* function labels
* object methods
Colors are by default configured for terminals with dark colors, such
as white on black, so the prompt may look too bright on light-colored
terminals. You can change that by setting the color profile of
utop. To do that, type:
UTop.set_profile UTop.Light;;
You can then add this line to your
.I ~/.config/utop/init.ml
file.
To turn off \fButop\fR's advanced prompt features, add the following to \fIinit.ml\fR
to turn off respectively (a) colors and the upper information line, and
(b) the lower boxed list of possible completions:
#utop_prompt_dummy;;
UTop.set_show_box false
You can enable basic syntax highlighting in utop by writing a
.I ~/.utoprc
file. See
.BR utoprc (5)
for that.
Vi edit mode is enabled by the command
#edit_mode_vi
It currently supports three vi modes: normal, insert, visual mode, and you can
get/set content with vim-like registers.
.I utop.el
is a package that provides
.B utop
integration with Emacs. The package allows you to run
.B utop
inside Emacs and to evaluate code in it straight from your source buffers
(with the help of \fIutop-minor-mode\fR).
The recommended way to install
.I utop.el
is via Emacs's built-in package manager \fBpackage.el\fR.
More detailed installation and configuration instructions may be found
on the project's code repository at \fIhttps://github.com/ocaml-community/utop\fR.
You can start \fButop\fR inside Emacs with \fBM-x utop\fR.
The default install also has a minor mode with the following key bindings:
\fBC-c C-s\fR Start a utop buffer (\fIutop\fR)
\fBC-x C-e\fR Evaluate the current phrase (\fIutop-eval-phrase\fR)
\fBC-x C-r\fR Evaluate the selected region (\fIutop-eval-region\fR)
\fBC-c C-b\fR Evaluate the current buffer (\fIutop-eval-buffer\fR)
\fBC-c C-k\fR Kill a running utop process (\fItop-kill\fR)
\fBC-c C-z\fR Switch to utop process (\fIutop-switch-to-repl\fR)
then you can run \fButop\fR by pressing \fBM-x\fR and typing "utop". \fButop\fR supports
completion in Emacs mode. Just press \fBTab\fR to complete a word. You can
also integrate it with the tuareg, caml or typerex mode. For that add
the following lines to your
.I ~/.emacs
file:
(autoload 'utop-minor-mode "utop" "Minor mode for utop" t)
(add-hook 'tuareg-mode-hook 'utop-minor-mode)
.SH OPTIONS
See
.B utop --help
for the full list of available options. There is considerable overlap
with options available for
.BR ocaml (1).
A commonly used option is
\fB-require\fI package\fR
to load \fIpackage\fR into the execution environment. It is equivalent
to using \fb#require\fR from inside
.BR utop (1).
.PP
.TP
.BI -absname
Show absolute filenames in error message.
.TP
.BI -I " dir"
Add \fIdir\fR to the list of include directories.
.TP
.BI -init " file"
Load \fIfile\fR instead of the default init file.
.TP
.BI -labels
Use commuting label mode.
.TP
.BI -no-app-funct
Deactivate applicative functors.
.TP
.BI -noassert
Do not compile assertion checks.
.TP
.BI -nolabels
Ignore non-optional labels in types.
.TP
.BI -nostdlib
Do not add the default directory to the list of include directories.
.TP
.BI -ppx " command"
Pipe abstract syntax trees through the preprocessor \fIcommand\fR.
.TP
.BI -principal
Check principality of type inference.
.TP
.BI -safe-string
Make strings immutable.
.TP
.BI -short-paths
Shorten paths in types (the default).
.TP
.BI -no-short-paths
Do not shorten paths in types.
.TP
.BI -rectypes
Allow arbitrary recursive types.
.TP
.BI -stdin
Read script from standard input.
.TP
.BI -strict-sequence
Left-hand part of a sequence must have type unit.
.TP
.BI -unsafe
Do not compile bounds checking on array and string access.
.TP
.BI -version
Print version and exit.
.TP
.BI -vnum
Print version number and exit.
.TP
.BI -w " list"
Enable or disable warnings according to \fIlist\fR.
.TP
.BI -warn-error " list"
Enable or disable error status for warnings according to \fIlist\fR.
See option \fB-w\fR for the syntax of \fIlist\fR.
Default setting is \fB-a+31\fR.
.TP
.BI -warn-help
Show description of warning numbers.
.TP
.BI -emacs
Run in emacs mode.
.TP
.BI -hide-reserved
Hide identifiers starting with a '_' (the default).
.TP
.BI -show-reserved
Show identifiers starting with a '_'.
.TP
.BI -no-implicit-bindings
Don't add implicit bindings for expressions (the default).
.TP
.BI -implicit-bindings
Add implicit bindings: \fIexpr\fR;; -> let _0 = \fIexpr\fR;;
.TP
.BI -no-autoload
Disable autoloading of files in
.I $OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH/autoload.
.TP
.BI -require " package"
Load this package.
.TP
.BI -dparsetree
Dump OCaml AST after rewriting.
.TP
.BI -dsource
Dump OCaml source after rewriting.
.TP
.BI -help
Display this list of options.
.TP
.BI --help
Display this list of options.
.SH FILES
.I ~/.config/utop/init.ml
.RS
The initialization file of the toplevel.
.RE
.I ~/.ocamlinit
.RS
The alternative initialization file of the toplevel.
.RE
.I ~/.utoprc
.RS
The configuration file for utop. See
.BR utoprc (5).
.RE
.I ~/.config/lambda-term-inputrc
.RS
The file containing key bindings. See
.BR lambda-term-inputrc (5).
.SH AUTHOR
Jérémie Dimino <jeremie@dimino.org>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR utoprc (5),
.BR lambda-term-inputrc (5),
.BR ocaml (1).