Devon,
I don't think I can take credit for your insight ... I say that mostly
because I felt kinship with a remark about vim recently (I'm a frequent
user of vim). The remark, modified to match my experience, "I used emacs
for a couple of years because I couldn't figure out how to exit a
session..."
Your issues with garbled expressions cause me amusement and pain on
other fronts. As a Thunderbird user, when something like 2^3 appears in
an expression, TBird "conveniently" renders it as a superscript
expression (discarding the ^ completely). If readers of this thread know
a way to prevent that, I would like to hear about it.
Even more annoying to me is when I have a ssh connection from terminal
(or Putty in Windows) and forget that I MUST NOT enter ~ as the first
character on an input line - at least if I want to continue my j
session. The workaround is to simply add a space in front, but I can't
count the number of times I've forgotten to do that and experienced the
immediate broken connection.
I guess I feel like we're lucky that j works as well as it does across
all the IDEs, consoles etc.
A book or FAQ page of such problems and fixes or workarounds to avoid
them would be a nice thing to have.
- joey
On 2014/03/12, 15:14 , Devon McCormick wrote:
OK - great! I got it to work though I invoke J through a batch file so I
can supply the arguments to run it with my usual defaults loaded.
Are you familiar with Zach Elliott's "j-mode.el" at
http://github.com/zellio/j-mode ?
Also, are you familiar with this:
;* disable-substitution-on-recall.el: prevent unwanted interpretation of !:
in J.
(defun disable-substitution-on-recall()
"Avoid unwanted interpretation of '!:' in J."
(interactive) ; Necessary to be able to run from interactive key
sequence?
(setq comint-input-autoexpand nil)
(setq comint-dynamic-complete-functions nil))
;EG NB. (disable-substitution-on-recall) [C-x C-e]
I think Joey Tuttle showed me this: it prevents emacs from garbling J
expressions like "6!:2" when they are recalled to a session via
"comint-previous-input".
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