Can you explain the setup further -- Where is the REPL running? How are you interacting with it? If I take "I want to temporarily switch the REPL off, i.e. it should visually disappear" literally then it seems like a strange thing to do, so I may be missing something
If you *do* want to hide the terminal window (if any) the REPL is (may be) running in, that's going to be very hard to do generally and across platforms (on Windows under Console you can use GetActiveWindow or GetActiveConsole, but on real pty platforms the process doesn't necessarily know anything about the terminal it is connected to beyond termcap and i/o). On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:41 PM, <anth...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >
