Nice weird feature on pasting julia> code

kristoffer.carlsson · September 16, 2018, 4:17pm

RFC: remove repl prompt prefix before parsing

JuliaLang:master ← JuliaLang:kc/remove_repl_prompt

opened 11:52PM - 24 Jul 16 UTC

It is common to encounter example code that is posted with the REPL prefix inclu…ded (typically `julia>`). This occurs in manual, doc tests and in forum posts etc. Usually one wants to quickly run this code in the REPL but then has to manually remove all the prompt prefixes first which can be a bit annoying. This PR simply checks if the statement being evaluated in the REPL starts with the REPL prefix and in that case removes it. As an example pasting this code block: ``` jl julia> const x = 1; julia> function foo(x) return x + 1 end; julia> type X x::Int end; ``` will be equivalent to pasting it without the `julia>` prefixes. This is also implemented for the other REPL modes. fixes https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16383

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