Using the terminal emulator Vterm (emacs-libvterm)

[Fourchaux]

Tuareg 2.2.0 - Emacs 28.0 - OCaml 4.10.0

Trying (the excellent) Emacs-libvterm (Vterm) https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm
I wonder if it would be possible to run the OCaml REPL (e.g. with 'tuareg-eval-buffer')
in a "vterm" buffer instead of the current "*OCaml*" buffer.

Thank you.

[jeongsoolee09]

You can fire up a REPL in vterm, and use comint-send-string or comint-send-region. Just be sure to pass the buffer name where vterm is running.

[bbatsov]

@monnier I think you can close this ticket, as I don't think that vterm integration is in the scope of Tuareg.

[monnier]

I wouldn't mind adding support for REPLs in other kinds of buffers than comint.
Those REPL buffers would likely not enjoy any special Tuareg-specific support (like code highlighting and completion), but we could still offer limited ways to interact with them from Tuareg mode buffers.
My impression is that it can be done without many changes (as suggested by @jeongsoolee09).
I don't expect working on this myself, but... patches welcome.