Re: [Amforth] amforth-shell.py bugfix

[Keith A. <ca...@pi...>]

{-- Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:12:50 -0400: Enoch <ix...@ho...> wrote: --}

  Enoch> Specialized IDEs are great but for me it's Emacs for
  Enoch> everything. 

It's emacs for everything for me as well.  Take a look at the mail user
agent this email comes from...  ;-)

  Enoch> I am using (a customized version of) gforth.el from the gforth
  Enoch> project. As we are all dreaming now... I hope to see Gforth
  Enoch> specifics replaced by AmForth specifics (sending code via
  Enoch> serial I/O rather to an inferior Gforth process). Time to wake
  Enoch> up now :-)

I did briefly look at modifying the forth-mode code from gforth to work
with amforth using amforth-shell.py to manage the interaction.  In
principle it shouldn't be terribly difficult to do but forth-mode seemed
fairly gforth specific and I didn't want to spend the time to try and
abstract it in addition to writing another backend.  

I haven't actually tried this but I think that a poor-man's version of
emacs integration can be achieved by using shell-command-on-region, by
default bound to "M-|", and the command "amforth-shell -p /dev/<tty>".
This should send the region to amforth-shell as standard input which
will be sent to the device.  The output will be in a buffer named
"*Shell Command Output*" which you can review to make sure the upload
was successful.

        --- Keith