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toplevel with pre-installed printers

Andrej Bauer
- Daniel_Bünzli
- Eric Stokes
  - Andrej Bauer
    - Richard Jones
      - Eric Cooper
        
        Richard Jones
        
        skaller
        
        David Brown
        
        skaller
    - code17
- Jean-Christophe Filliatre
  - Gerd Stolpmann

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] toplevel with pre-installed printers

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Andrej Bauer wrote:
> Eric Stokes wrote:
> > When the toplevel starts up, it evaluates (on unix) ~/.ocamlinit,  
> > which can contain arbitrary ocaml expressions.
> 
> Sorry, I was not clear enough. I know about .ocamlinit. I am going to
> have several custom ocamltop's and they can't all share the same
> .ocamlinit. What now?

We tried to do the same thing and couldn't find a way.  One rather
nasty suggestion involved a surrounding shell script which would
launch the right toplevel in the right directory with the right
.ocamlinit.  It's not pleasant.

Rich.

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