Bump, it would be great if someone could point me to some approach for this. We are getting an integrated terminal ready in VS Code, and this is the one piece missing right now.
Thanks, David On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 5:00:22 PM UTC-7, David Anthoff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a way to switch off the REPL and then on again, from a task? > > > > Specifically, I want to start a julia instance and pass a script in with > the –L parameter that will open a socket, listen for connections and the > process messages from that socket. This server listening code is all > wrapped in @async macro calls. So when I start things this way, julia shows > the REPL and at the same time listens for incoming messages. I can use the > REPL etc. This is exactly what I want. > > > > But when I receive a message, I want to temporarily switch the REPL off, > i.e. it should visually disappear while I process that message, and then I > want to switch it back on once I’m done processing that message. > > > > Can that be done somehow? > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > -- > > David Anthoff > > University of California, Berkeley > > > > http://www.david-anthoff.com > > >
