On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:17:09PM +0100, Marc André Tanner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 03:07:28PM +0100, Silvan Jegen wrote: > > Has anyone used vis successfully with lua 5.3? > > Yes I had it running with 5.3 at some point. I guess you do > not have LPeg installed (for 5.3). A first try would be to > change into the `lexers` sub directory inside the vis source > tree and start the lua interpreter: > > [...]
haha, I was expecting some convoluted API-version incompatibility issue but I just did not have LPeg 5.3 installed... installing the library fixed the issue, thanks. > Hope that helps. And yes error reporting will eventually be > improved ... While searching for the source of the issue I was wondering about how to handle error reporting in vis the best way. I came up with only two general approaches. Either send error messages to the UI (including a sleep() so that errors further down in the call chain don't get eclipsed) or log them to a file (both approaches feel like bad choices). I wonder how other TUI programs handle their error messages.
