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# Hilbish

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## Summary

Hilbish is a Moon-powered interactive shell for Lua fans, offering extensibility, scriptability, and configurability in Lua. It provides history and completion menus, tons of features, and is customizable and extensible via an accessible Lua API. Hilbish is more than just a Lua interpreter, it is also an enhanced REPL and user shell.

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