Re: [Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread Elias Mårtenson
On 22 March 2016 at 12:06, David B. Lamkins wrote: > But after forty years, several bouts with RSI (mostly pointer-related, but > also "Emacs pinky") Did you remap caps-lock to control? If I have to use a system that doesn't have that, my pinky hurst after 30 seconds of use. On machines where

Re: [Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread David B. Lamkins
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:46:21AM +0800, Elias Mårtenson wrote: >On 22 March 2016 at 10:43, David B. Lamkins <[1]da...@lamkins.net> >wrote: > > FWIW, apl-pkg is much more than a wrapper around an external editor. > Similar to gnu-apl-mode, apl-pkg provides a number of tools for

Re: [Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread Elias Mårtenson
On 22 March 2016 at 10:43, David B. Lamkins wrote: > FWIW, apl-pkg is much more than a wrapper around an external editor. > Similar to gnu-apl-mode, apl-pkg provides a number of tools for > programming-in-the-large. > Of course. I did not intend to disparage your (or anybody else's) work. My in

Re: [Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread David B. Lamkins
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 09:50:02AM +0800, Elias Mårtenson wrote: >There was another project that >aimed to provide something similar, using a dedicated application >called aplwrap. What happened to that? Chris Moller wrote aplwrap. I contributed some improvements and was the last pers

Re: [Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread Christian Robert
I used it (aplwrap) and use it from time to time especially when I have to make a lot of mods to a function, but aplwrap tend to coredump too often, forgetting my whole evening modifications too many times. I like the interface and would be able to live with it, but near every long session end

Re: [Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread Elias Mårtenson
I have to admit that the discussion about )edit misses the greater point, one that I believe is at least partially solved by gnu-apl-mode, which is better integration with development environments. If you want to have an easy way of editing functions, or even getting realtime code navigation, why

Re: [Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread Christian Robert
Kacper, I love the way ∇EDIT⍙OPEN solve the problem of "input is not a tty" said by ")host vi function_file" I *still* think that this ")edit function_name" should be right into the interpretor functionnality. Ideally it should invoke EDITOR in a new terminal window (fork() and exec(EDITOR,p

[Bug-apl] Near Proof of concept of an )edit somefunction_name

2016-03-21 Thread Fred Weigel
Christian Back in August, I started using GNU APL -- the first thing I did was to bring up the Toronto Toolkit. The second was to implement edit function and edit array. Find attached my work. I convert the text of the function to a 'del' definition, edit it, and then read it in with )copy. A )re

Re: [Bug-apl] Error in ⎕EC with each operator

2016-03-21 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Kacper, thanks, SVN 710. /// Jürgen On 03/20/2016 08:46 PM, Kacper Gutowski wrote: Thanks, Some debugging output is left while using ⎕EC in r709, but otherwise it appears to work correctly. -k On Sun, Mar 20, 201