On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 1:28:16 PM UTC-4, David Anthoff wrote: > > > The complete setup is slightly more complicated, but you can imagine just > the following: start a normal julia REPL. Then include a file that will > start a server listening on some socket. This server is all async, so as > soon as the server is started, the prompt appears again and one can use > this REPL window in the normal way. Now some other process connects to the > socket, and sends some code that this server will eval. Before the server > evals this code, I would like it to switch off the prompt, then eval the > code, then switch the prompt on again. >
Base.Terminals.clear(Base.active_repl.t); sleep(10) will clear the REPL window (including prompt) for 10 seconds. Instead of sleep(10), you can do wait(c) where c is a Condition variable that gets notified by the server thread once it is ready. See http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/parallel/?highlight=wait
