Hi Paul,

On 01/21/2014 10:40 PM, Paul Onions wrote:
> I looked at Aldor briefly a month or two ago, but couldn't get it to
> compile on my platform (Mac OSX), so gave up :-(
> 
> I didn't try very hard though, and think that perhaps I should try
> again, putting some effort into it this time.  Is there much activity on
> the Aldor-development front?  The mailing list seems to be very quiet
> recently.

Arrrhhh. Well, yes, since about a month there is quietness, but you
should rather track activity at https://github.com/pippijn/aldor.

And if you have problems with OSX, then you should rather post them on
the aldor-devel list instead of wasting your precious time. I've no Mac
and so don't know whether aldor compiles there, but I'm pretty sure that
Pippijn and Peter would like to make it work on all major platforms.

>> Looking into themes/fricas-on-sbcl-theme.el shows me that you seem to
>> rely on the fricas promt having the form
>>   (nnn) ->
>> Probably OK, but I guess, it would be better to do similar to what
>> Martin Rubey has done in the current underlying efricas mode, i.e. to
>> use the hook mechanism of fricas to inject some special character
>> sequences into the output so that finding the prompt would be more
>> reliable. However, maybe it's unnecessary.
> 
> Actually, the reliability of this prompt-spotting scheme did leave me
> feeling a little uneasy, but it seemed to work okay so I went with it. 
> If there is a better mechanism available in FriCAS then it would be good
> if I used it.  Is it documented anywhere, or should I look at the
> efricas.el code?

Look here and the corresponding usage...

https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas-svn/blob/master/contrib/emacs/fricas.el#L142

But maybe it's also interesting to look at how the TeXmacs people used
that mechanism.

https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas-svn/blob/master/src/etc/fricas#L114

Grep for ioHook in the fricas source tree.

>> What would be cool... if editing .input files, it should be possible
>> to type something like Ctrl-ENTER to send the current line to a fricas
>> session. Even more cool, if I could thus send a multiline function
>> definition.

> Yes, something like this would be nice.  Jiazhaoconga mentioned
> something similar.  This really should be the next thing I do...

I'm not sure whether

https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas-svn/blob/master/contrib/emacs/fricas.el#L777

would be doing this. But I'm sure, you can read the .el sources better
than me.

Best regards
Ralf

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