I use rlwrap instead. The REPL is one of the features that hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. It was much more important to spend the time getting t

I use rlwrap instead. The REPL is one of the features that hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. It was much more important to spend the time getting the rest of the language into shape. That said I use the REPL for 90% of my coding. Including temporarily replacing parts of the runtime while trying to fix them.