after Marc Griffith brought up the idea to create a Lua-console to type in commands directly in Celestia, I found out that this is already possible with Celestia 1.3.2pre1 (earlier version didn't have the necessary keyboard-input for scripts).
So I have written a script which reads lines from the keyboard and executes them as Lua-scripts (or more precise as functions) when pressing Enter. You can get the script here:
http://www.h-schmidt.net/celestia/
Currently you can only type, delete (backspace) and execute the current line (Return), but this should be enough to test some Lua-commands. To see the value of something, you have to return it (the line is executed as a function, so if you type "return 1+1", the result will be 2). Variables can be used, so you can save values across different lines.
E.g.
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o = celestia:getobserver()
sol = celestia:find("Sol")
o:goto(sol, 10)
There is no documentation for the new scripting features (like keyboard, mutliviews, etc) yet, so if you have questions, please ask here.
Harald
