Re: [Bug-apl] Proposal wrt experimental code

2014-05-01 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Peter, there is very little emacs related code in the GNU APL core. The --emacs command line option replaces the escape sequences normally used for colors by sequences that are easier to detect by emacs so that emacs (which intercepts the GNU APL output) knows if a line printed by the int

Re: [Bug-apl] Proposal wrt experimental code

2014-04-30 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Peter, sorry as well. I believe i was mislead by your earlier question for the source of the Nabla editor. I cannot give you a full answer because the question touches many aspects of GNU APL, like how to do things, who does and maintain things, what do we like, and so on. But I can share

Re: [Bug-apl] Proposal wrt experimental code

2014-04-30 Thread Peter Teeson
Hi Jürgen: So sorry but we are not understanding each other on this. I apologize for my inability to state it more clearly. This is a long reply but I'm trying to explain it with words. Too bad we can't sit down over a mug of beer (or a cup of tea) and discuss it IRL. My proposal is NOT specific

Re: [Bug-apl] Proposal wrt experimental code

2014-04-30 Thread Juergen Sauermann
Hi Peter, there are already a number of facilities in GNU APL that can be switched on and off via ./configure, for example Assert(). See the macros in configure.ac that end in _WANTED to see how thjis works. I guess what you are after is ∇-editor command [A⎕B] . I would rate the lack of it as