Thanks for the quick reply, Bill.
I remember how to do it now. If you load the plot methods via
require'plot' from emacs, and you're set up to use the pdf viewer, you
have to change the following part of stdlb.ijs to include the extra '
&' to fork the PDF viewer. (aka change the "2!:1 cmd" line to "2!:1 cmd,
' &'")
cmd=. PDFReader,' ',dquote cmd
try.
2!:1 cmd, ' &'
catch.
msg=. 'Could not run the PDFReader with the command:',LF2
Anyway, maybe this will help somebody else in the future. It is a lot
more convenient being able to plot without your fingers leaving the
keyboard in emacs (which is one of the main reasons I like to use emacs).
For the record, there is another pdf viewer thing in
graphics/plot/jzplot.ijs which looks like it forks, but that code is
never reached when I use plotting from jconsole/emacs.
The relevant line there is
fork_jtask_ (dquote PDFReader_j_),' ', (dquote file)
-SL
Bill Lam wrote:
>I know almost nothing about emacs. for J7 Jconsole , there is a
>cairo output which generates png image. at ~temp/plot.png IIRC.
On 08/31/2014 07:42 PM, Scott Locklin wrote:
I know some of you are emacs types like me. I recall being able to
call up multiple plots in emacs using jconsole/J7.x/emacs, but I can't
for the life of me remember the configuration magic for achieving this.
The symptom, just to be clear, is you need to kill the plot window to
return to the J session.
It seems that you should be able to fork the pdf viewer somehow, at
the very least (sticking a '&' after the shell out if you're working
in something unix-like as I am).
-SL
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