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Date: 17 Apr 85 15:45:42 EST (Wed)
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From: Martin David Connor <mdc@MIT-HTVAX.ARPA>
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 85 16:28:15 est
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From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@mit-prep>
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Can you help this person? Also, can you give me the rest of ledit
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to distribute, plus some info on how to use it?
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I have put the files "ledit.l" and "leditcfns.c" on prep:~mdc.
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Much to my disgust ledit.l relied on some bogus little package of
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functions on HT, so I had to massage it a bit.
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To get it to work, one must:
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- Compile leditcfns.c with something like:
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cc leditcfns.c
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- Edit ledit.l, changing the line beginning "(cfasl" to
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have the right pathname for the cfns file you compiled in
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the last step.
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- Compile ledit.l with:
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liszt ledit.l
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Then put the following lines in your .lisprc file:
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;load in functions for emacs interface
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(load "//src//mdc//ledit//ledit") ; Location of Ledit library
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(set-proc-str "%gnumacs") ; Name of editor
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Then you can use ^E <RETURN> to get from LISP back to gnumacs.
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Here is the part of my .emacs file that pertains to ledit.
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;;; Set up ledit mode
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(setq ledit-go-to-lisp-string "%lisp")
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(setq lisp-mode-hook 'ledit-from-lisp-mode)
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 85 11:26:32 cst
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From: neves@wisc-ai.arpa (David Neves)
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This is a documentation question.
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I cannot figure out how to use Ledit. I suspect I need some
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function on the Franz Lisp end of things to go to Emacs and read in
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the temporary file. Is this true? Is the Lisp job started within
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Emacs or outside of emacs? I'm just plain confused. Perhaps a couple
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of words from someone in the know would help.
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A related question. I have been using a shell buffer when interacting
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with Lisp (ie. put a definition in the kill buffer and then yank it
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into the shell buffer to redefine it). This is nice but tends to fill
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up the shell buffer with lots of code (I'd rather keep calls to functions
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in the shell and not the functions themselves).
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My question: Is using the shell buffer "better" than ledit? Am I using
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it in the best way (i.e. copying definitions from an edit buffer to the
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shell buffer)? -Thanks, David Neves
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I have found that ledit works well for doing programming development
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when you are changing lots of little pieces of a file and don't wish
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to recompile the whole file. Of course M-X Compile is very nice for
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calling up a liszt on a buffer and watching it in the another window.
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Of course the interface of something like NIL is even better because
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you can compile your function directly into your lisp. But since NIL
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doesn't run under Unix, this is probably the next best thing.
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I have tried the 2 window method (shell in lower window, lisp code in
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upper), and have found it a little awkward. It does have certain
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advantages, but most of the time, I get be fine using M-C-D to save a
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defun for lisp, and C-X Z to jump back to LISP. C-E RETURN from lisp
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is also mnemonic for getting back to gnumacs.
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I hope this helps somewhat.
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