Re: Installation issues

2015-02-17 Thread Alexis
On 2015-02-17T17:12:54+1100, Alexander Burger said: AB> as I mentioned in my previous mail, is Thorsten currently AB> offline. He asked me to post this for him A> "i'll try to find some time to: A> * examine the diffs between the distribution version and the A> GitHub version; T

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-17 Thread Henrik Sarvell
To complicate things I've attached my two local versions of picolisp.el and inferior-picolisp.el When I diff them I see quite substantial differences. Unfortunately I have no idea why I made those changes as I didn't take any notes and it was several years ago. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:12 AM,

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-16 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi list, as I mentioned in my previous mail, is Thorsten currently offline. He asked me to post this for him: - Hi Alexis, this is Thorsten, the current maintainer (but ot original author) of the Emacs stuff. "i'll try to find some time to: * examine

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-15 Thread Alexis
On 2015-02-15T02:56:38+1100, Alexander Burger said: AB> Unfortunately, Thorsten (the original maintainer) is currently AB> offline. AB> I can't do anything in 'picolisp.el', as I'm ignorant of emacs, AB> but I can gladly take changes (if they are thoughtfully reviewed AB> and agreed upon by

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-14 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Alexis, > >Hi Alexis, if I google "picolisp emacs" I see the following URL as > >the #1 result: https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-mode > > > >That is what I use when I code PL in Emacs, works great! > > Excellent. :-) However, that code hasn't been updated for over 2 > years, and since i've had

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-14 Thread Alexis
On 2015-02-14T00:39:55+1100, Lawrence Bottorff said: LB> Is this different from the distribution version? Yes. The distribution version includes `picolisp-wiki-mode.el`, which the GitHub version doesn't, and a running a diff on `picolisp.el` and `inferior-picolisp.el` shows various differenc

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Alexis
Henrik Sarvell writes: Hi Alexis, if I google "picolisp emacs" I see the following URL as the #1 result: https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-mode That is what I use when I code PL in Emacs, works great! Excellent. :-) However, that code hasn't been updated for over 2 years, and since i've had

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Hi Lawrence, I have no idea, I have never installed the dist version. I usually install like at the bottom of this article: http://picolisp.com/wiki/?Websockets On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Is this different from the distribution version? BTW, the dist version > d

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Is this different from the distribution version? BTW, the dist version doesn't seem to have a customize - mode variable for the picolisp exe or for pil. Again, the default seems to be /usr/bin/pil . How do I override this?

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-13 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Hi Alexis, if I google "picolisp emacs" I see the following URL as the #1 result: https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-mode That is what I use when I code PL in Emacs, works great! I've added a few keywords to the mode and the doc jumping in my init.el, could post both changes here if anyone is intere

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Alexis
andr...@itship.ch writes: @Alexis: Just have a look into lib/el/ in your picolisp installation. i'm on Debian Wheezy(+updates), and having installed the available PicoLisp package (3.1.0.7-1), couldn't see any .el files within the PicoLisp directory (/usr/share/picolisp/), which doesn't hav

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread andreas
The drop-down menu has tools to do indentation, commenting in and out, and to run-picolisp.When you haveĀ  run-picolisp started (thats an emacs buffer with pil repl), there are several additional options in the dropdown to evaluate the picolisp code where the cursor is in the editor buffer, or to ru

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Okay, now it's working! Thanks for all your efforts! As far as the drop-down menu, I can't recall. But it was present with the distribution package, in .../lib/el if I'm not mistaken. It's just that now when I run M-x picolisp-mode . . . nothing seems to have happened. For opening a *.l file, I ge

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: Okay, this is what I get with the latest melpa picolisp-mode: emacs-snapshot: /usr/bin/pil: No such file or directory Process picolisp-repl exited abnormally with code 127 This is /after/ you've set the value of `picoliso-pil-executable` appropriately? Alexis.

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: BTW, I don't see a drop-down menu when I start picolisp-mode. The old version (bundled with the picolisp download had one. Just thought I'd mention it. . . . Well, what i've written isn't any sort of 'update' of the version you mention; i wrote it from scratch, as

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Okay, this is what I get with the latest melpa picolisp-mode: emacs-snapshot: /usr/bin/pil: No such file or directory Process picolisp-repl exited abnormally with code 127 > >

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
BTW, I don't see a drop-down menu when I start picolisp-mode. The old version (bundled with the picolisp download had one. Just thought I'd mention it. . . . On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Forward-step (Fortschritt) must be, so said Wallenski. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 201

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-12 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Forward-step (Fortschritt) must be, so said Wallenski. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Alexis wrote: > > Alexis writes: > > Lawrence Bottorff writes: >> > > . . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp >>> (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired s

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Alexis writes: Lawrence Bottorff writes: . . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired somewhere to look for a /usr/bin/ executable (pil or picolisp). Not quite: the problem turns out to be that i've fa

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: . . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired somewhere to look for a /usr/bin/ executable (pil or picolisp). Not quite: the problem turns out to be that i've failed to make use of

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: No matter what I do, M-x picolisp-repl gives: Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil I've set customize group thus: .. '(picolisp-picolisp-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLisp/bin/picolisp") '(picolisp-pil-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLis

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
. . I'm sure if I install a ubuntu-debian package version of picolisp (3.1.7) picolisp-repl will see that, i.e., it's hardwired somewhere to look for a /usr/bin/ executable (pil or picolisp). On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > No matter what I do, M-x picolisp-repl giv

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
No matter what I do, M-x picolisp-repl gives: Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil I've set customize group thus: .. '(picolisp-picolisp-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLisp/bin/picolisp") '(picolisp-pil-executable "/home/lawrence/opt/picoLisp/pil") in a fresh install of th

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Alexis
Lawrence Bottorff writes: New install. Put picoLisp in ~/opt/picoLisp/ Then I created an alias for the pil: alias pil='~/opt/picoLisp/pil +' This works fine from shell; starts up REPL. However emacs can't start the REPL (run-picolisp): Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-11 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Lawrence, > alias pil='~/opt/picoLisp/pil +' > > This works fine from shell; starts up REPL However emacs can't > start the REPL (run-picolisp): > > Searching for program: no such file or directory, pil > > What can I do to make emacs see ~/opt/picoLisp/pilĀ  ? have you tried alias pil=~/op

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-10 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
n/picolisp ${0%/*}/lib.l @ext.l > @lib/misc.l @lib/btree.l @lib/db.l @lib/pilog.l "$@" > > > -Original Message- > > From: picolisp@software-lab.de [mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de] On > Behalf > > Of Alexander Burger > > Sent: Saturday, February 07,

RE: Installation issues

2015-02-09 Thread Loyall, David
l #!/bin/sh BROWSER=x-www-browser exec ${0%/*}/bin/picolisp ${0%/*}/lib.l @ext.l @lib/misc.l @lib/btree.l @lib/db.l @lib/pilog.l "$@" > -Original Message- > From: picolisp@software-lab.de [mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de] On Behalf > Of Alexander Burger > Sent: Satu

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-06 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Lawrence, > I've gotten the latest picolisp, 3.1.9, and am trying to install locally. OK > Following the instructions for 64-bit on my linux, I've built the > executable picolisp all right. But the bin directory's pil seems to pick up > the previous version I installed before from Ubuntu: I

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-06 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 05:42:43PM -0500, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Why does the pil in .../bin/ behave this way? I'd like both, but I guess I > could uninstall one of them. . . No, keeping both is fine. I do the same. You can have as many installations on the system as you like. You simply sele

Installation issues

2015-02-06 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
Hello, I've gotten the latest picolisp, 3.1.9, and am trying to install locally. Following the instructions for 64-bit on my linux, I've built the executable picolisp all right. But the bin directory's pil seems to pick up the previous version I installed before from Ubuntu: ../bin/> ./pil : (ver