On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Phil Hagelberg <p...@hagelb.org>: > > > > Emeka <emekami...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> I would like to have a transcript of Repl. Could someone help me out > here? > > > > Sure; run it in GNU Screen with logging turned on. > > > > $ screen -l > > $ rlwrap java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main > > => (do some stuff) > > > > It will get written to screenlog.0. > > Or use "script". Or turn on logging in xterm. But all of these assume a unix environment and a standalone REPL. A Windows/Mac user can use an IDE's integrated REPL and that will probably have a backscroll they can copy and paste from. I can confirm that NetBeans with Enclojure on Windows allows copy/pasting the entire REPL history or any fragment of it, and without futzing around with either screen or the options dialog of a terminal emulator. :) Eclipse with Counterclockwise will probably be similar. Vimclojure and emacs (on any operating system) will have at least the ability to copy from the REPL's history and paste elsewhere in the editor, but maybe not any nice way to export it to something else, like the mail client used to post to this list. At the very least you will be able to paste it into a blank text file in the same editor, save it, and attach it to outgoing mail from your mail client. Your mail client might provide a way to paste or load a text file directly into a mail body (not as an attachment), and other software might provide a way to view and copy from text files in a way that you can paste what was copied into other applications. If the editor is run in a GUI terminal emulator and the code from the REPL will all fit on the screen at once, the emulator's mark/copy mode will work and can paste into a GUI mail client, or via terminal emulator paste into pine or any other oddball pre-GUI mail client you might prefer. So copying to a list post or other external place should still be doable but might be a bit of a pain with those two environments. A standalone REPL on Windows is amenable to making the command prompt window's backscroll big enough, if needed, and then copying from it using the prompt window's mark/copy mode. A standalone REPL on MS-DOS is tougher. The only way I know of short of installing Windows is to redirect the REPL's output to a file, but then you'd have to interact with it blind, and since it has line editing on the prompt line, the file might have escape sequences and/or other cruft in it and need some postprocessing. It might be best in that case to create a text file with expressions you want to evaluate at the REPL, then run the REPL process with input redirected from this file and output redirected to another file, to get a clean output and not have to type blind. The downside is this isn't as interactive; you can't change your mind or decide stuff after seeing some of the results, but only after seeing ALL of the results and then altering the input file. I'd recommend against using a standalone REPL on DOS, or on terminal-mode Unix which is only slightly friendlier thanks to the availability of screen. Use a terminal emulator from a GUI desktop, if not an IDE. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
