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Prince John Wesley edited this page Nov 5, 2015 · 31 revisions

Feature Improvements

 Download npm modules on demand

Mancy will try to install unavailable npm modules to default user data directory.

  • Windows : C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\mancy\User Data\node_modules
  • Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/mancy/node_modules
  • Linux: ~/.config/mancy/Default/node_modules

 Babel support

  • babel compilation is turned off by default.
  • To turn on/off, use babel transform property from preference window(Use Preference... from menu or gear icon in status bar)

 await with auto async wrapper

  • async auto wrapping is enabled by default
  • Auto wrapping is applicable for the below forms
    • await expression
    • let value = await expression
  • Wrapping process transforms the input to below form
(async function(){ let result = (await expression); return result; }())
let value = (async function(){ let result = (await expression); return result; }())

 Data visualization support

  • Integer representation (bin, oct, dec and hex)
  • Regular expression live editor
  • Buffer explorer
  • HTML view
  • CSS color view
  • base64 detection
  • Basic chart representation of data
  • Image detection / display
  • Download buffers support

 Support to break long lasting commands

  • Set timeout in preference window for long lasting command like this:
while(true) {}

 Preference window

Use Preference... from menu or gear icon in status bar to access preference window.

  • Theme - Toggle theme preference(default dark).
  • REPL Mode - Change node REPL mode(default magic).
  • Babel Transform - Toggle babel transcompilation(default false).
  • Auto async wrapper - Toggle on/off the auto async wrapping feature for bare await(default true).
  • Execution timeout(ms) - timeout in milliseconds for long lasting commands(default: 1 minute). 0 means no timeout set.
  • Auto complete popup delay(ms) - trigger delay for auto command completion in milliseconds(default 250ms).
  • Toggle run mode (⇧ + ↲) / ↲ - toggle support for run command mode(default false).
  • Auto suggest selection on ↲ - if turned off, auto suggest selection will be ignored on enter.

preference-light preference-dark

 Promise output tracking

 Source file open support for node modules(.source name)

 No special meaning for _

In node repl's context, _(underscore) is a special variable that contains the result of the last expression.
In this version, there is no special meaning for _ and therefore, the below code runs as expected.

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 Syntax highlight as we type

Syntax highlight is supported for active prompt area

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