One use for showInputPanel: interactive Haskell prompt

[FalconNL]

Saw this function in the changelog for the latest beta and couldn't find any examples yet on how to use it yet, so I played around a little:

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class GhcExpressionCommand(sublimeplugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, view, args):
        view.window().runCommand("save")
        runexpr = lambda e: view.window().runCommand("exec",["","ghc.exe -e \"" + e.replace("\"","\\\"") + "\" \"" + view.fileName() + "\""])
        view.window().showInputPanel("Run Ghc expression:", "", runexpr, lambda s:s, 0)

Bind with something like

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<binding key="F8" command="ghcExpression">
    <context name="selector" value="source.haskell"/>
</binding>

and voila, an interactive Haskell prompt in Sublime text. Useful for things like checking types or quickly testing the output of a function.
It should work for other languages as well, assuming they can run commands on a file from the command line.

Very useful addition, thanks jps!

[SteveCooperOrg]

Very useful addition, thanks jps!

Definitely. With the input panel and the quick panel, we've got some really nice tools for adding interactivity. Thumbs up from me, too!

[SteveCooperOrg]

This would also be useful for vi emulation; pop up a panel and type "s/search/replace<enter>" to do a vi-style search-and-replace. Our man vim will be very happy, I suspect...

[vim]