Re: kawa binary snapshot

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 06/06/2016 01:44 PM, Jamison Hope wrote:
> It seems to work fine on Mac OS X, as long as I run under Java 8.
> I get an UnsupportedClassVersionError if I try to use Java 7.

Yes, the JLine3 implementation has some Java 8 dependencies.

I re-build (and re-uploaded) kawa-2.1.9-20160618.zip built with
-source 7 -target 7, so Kawa will run under Java 7, though you
won't get the jline (or domterm) support.

> (Also, the path to servlet.jar in the script is not very portable, but
> this doesn't affect ordinary non-server usage.)

I fixed that.

> Yeah that is neat, and is something that rlwrap can't match (since it
> just dumbly wraps I/O to java without knowing anything of parenthesis
> matching).

Also, tab-completion would be difficult with rlwrap (or the old
kawa-frontend).

> Are the prompt colors going to be customizable?  I usually do
> white-on-black, so the JLine prompt ends up being white on light green,
> which is hard to read.

Yes.  I expect I will remove the default prompt coloring when using jline,
though for now I checked it to green foreground, rather than green background.
I do plan to keep some default prompt color when using domterm, but that
is customizable with css:

(domterm-load-stylesheet "span[std='prompt'] {color: blue; background-color: pink }")

(This does not yet work when using jline+domterm, because there isn't
yet a way for jline to pass the correct escape codes to domterm.)
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