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lua55Packages.luaprompt

A Lua command prompt with pretty-printing and auto-completion

github.com lua55Packages.luaprompt 2 releases newest changed 16 days ago

version0.10-1 attributelua55Packages.luaprompt rev419fe0f449b3fbe3bdd53d9840288db4509ec32e 2026-09-28 · one commit for every system systems✓ aarch64-darwin✓ aarch64-linuxx86_64-darwin✓ x86_64-linux

$ devbox add lua55Packages.luaprompt@0.10-1

$ nix shell github:NixOS/nixpkgs/419fe0f449b3fbe3bdd53d9840288db4509ec32e#lua55Packages.luaprompt

JSON: /v2/resolve?name=lua55Packages.luaprompt&version=latest

Releases

newest first, as /v2/pkg orders them

Version	arm mac	arm linux	x86 mac	x86 linux	Attribute	Commit	Date	Outputs
0.10-1resolved	✓	✓	–	✓	`lua55Packages.luaprompt`	02f5696b0e	2026-09-13
0.9-1	✓	✓	✓	✓	`lua55Packages.luaprompt`	varies	2026-08-01

Prereleases are listed but latest never picks one. “varies” means each system last changed at a different nixpkgs commit — the release page lists them.

Description

luaprompt is both an interactive Lua prompt that can be used instead of the official interpreter, as well as module that provides a Lua command prompt that can be embedded in a host application. As a standalone interpreter it provides many conveniences that are missing from the official Lua interpreter. As an embedded prompt, it's meant for applications that use Lua as a configuration or interface language and can therefore benefit from an interactive prompt for debugging or regular use. luaprompt features: * Readline-based input with history and completion: In particular all keywords, global variables and table accesses (with string or integer keys) can be completed in addition to readline's standard file completion. Module names are also completed, for modules installed in the standard directories, and completed modules can optionally be loaded. * Persistent command history (retained across sessions), as well as recording of command results for future reference. * Proper value pretty-printing for interactive use: When an expression is entered at the prompt, all returned values are printed (prepending with an equal sign is not required). Values are printed in a descriptive way that tries to be as readable as possible. The formatting tries to mimic Lua code (this is done to minimize ambiguities and no guarantees are made that it is valid code). Additionally, each value is stored in a table for future reference. * Color highlighting of error messages and variable printouts.