Hi List, related to the nice idea of publishing the Rosettacode examples (which would actually be nicer _with_ the task descriptions included) I have a few (probably rather newbie) technical questions about manipulating the file-system and processing text in PicoLisp:
1. How to make, concat, and kill files (and directories) on Linux with PicoLisp? Using the system functions? 2. How to realize the following workflow (from Emacs, using Emacs Lisp) in PicoLisp: You open a text file in an Emacs buffer, goto beginning-of-buffer, do a regexp-search for pattern1. Get the point position of the start of pattern1, then delete all the text between beginning-of-buffer and start-of-pattern1. Do another regexp-search for pattern2, get point position of end-of-pattern2. Then treat end-of-pattern2 like beginning-of-buffer and search for start-of-pattern3 etc. The idea is to identify certain blocks in the text and delete everything around them. Thats a very typical task for Emacs Lisp in Emacs, but I'm not quite sure how to do this in PicoLisp. Probably would need a book with all the Rosettacode examples on my desk to easily look it up ;) 3. Is it possible to use 'prog' or 'let' with 'apply', i.e. apply a whole sequence of functions instead of only one to the 'lst argument? Thanks for any tips. -- cheers, Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
