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Raku has a built in REPL that can be initiated by running the Raku executable without any parameters. It is fairly basic on its own but here are bindings available in the Raku ecosystem for [https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html GNU Readline] and/or [https://github.com/antirez/linenoise Linenoise] either of which will automatically provide command history, tab completion and more advance command line editing capability if installed. They are not included in the Raku distribution directly. There are incompatible licensing requirements and providing hooks for third party tools allows for more customization options. |
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Linenoise is generally the preferred option unless you really want the emacs compatible command line editing key bindings. Readline is arguably more powerful but is somewhat fiddly to set up. |
Linenoise is generally the preferred option unless you really want the emacs compatible command line editing key bindings. Readline is arguably more powerful but is somewhat fiddly to set up. |
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