Hilbish/docs/runner-mode.txt

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Hilbish is *unique,* when interactive it first attempts to run input as
Lua and then tries shell script. But if you're normal, you wouldn't
really be using Hilbish anyway but you'd also not want this
(or maybe want Lua only in some cases.)
The "runner mode" of Hilbish is customizable via `hilbish.runnerMode`,
which determines how Hilbish will run user input. By default, this is
set to `hybrid` which is the previously mentioned behaviour of running Lua
first then going to shell script. If you want the reverse order, you can
set it to `hybridRev` and for isolated modes there is `sh` and `lua`
respectively.
You can also set it to a function, which will be called everytime Hilbish
needs to run interactive input. For example, you can set this to a simple
function to compile and evaluate Fennel, and now you can run Fennel.
You can even mix it with sh to make a hybrid mode with Lua replaced by
Fennel.
An example:
hilbish.runnerMode(function(input)
local ok = pcall(fennel.eval, input)
if ok then
return 0, nil
end
return hilbish.runner.sh(input)
end)
The `hilbish.runner` interface is an alternative to using `hilbish.runnerMode`
and also provides the sh and Lua runner functions that Hilbish itself uses.
A runner function is expected to return 2 values: the exit code, and an error.
The exit code has to be a number, it will be 0 otherwise and the error can be
`nil` to indicate no error.
## Functions
These are the functions for the `hilbish.runner` interface
+ setMode(mode) > The same as `hilbish.runnerMode`
+ sh(input) -> code, err > Runs `input` in Hilbish's sh interpreter
+ lua(input) -> code, err > Evals `input` as Lua code