It is painful for a Linux user to use the OCaml toplevel without the readline features. Is there a method to enable/add these kinds of features in readline to the OCaml toplevel? I find 2 options that work very well for me: utop provides a beautiful interface and supports completion, colors, parenthesis matching, etc. It…
The built-in indenting in Vim for OCaml seems not very good. How to set up auto indenting for OCaml code in Vim? ocp-indent works very well for me. This posts introduces how to configure Vim to use ocp-indent to automatically indent/format OCaml code. First, install ocp-indent after installing opam: $ opam install ocp-indent Second, configure…
Google Drive is nice cloud storage which provide document editing features. However, it does not yet provide a Linux client. I find a good third party tool that works with Google Drive on Linux very well: google-drive-ocamlfuse. The website of google-drive-ocamlfuse provides easy to follow instructions to install it. In this tutorial, we show a…
OCaml is an interesting functional language. There are lots learning materials on the Internet. I compile a list of resources for OCaml learning and reference. Recommended OCaml learning and reference material Online book of Real World OCaml by Yaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy, Jason Hickey. A very good tutorial by Jason Hickey: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf. The OCaml system…