[Matlab-emacs-discuss] matlab cell-like mode for Yorick

[Strozzi, D. J. <str...@ll...>]

I am not trying to incite a holy war but will try to be ecumenical and
syncretist:

Yorick is a free, open-source interpreter for numerics (and with a
parallel mode) written primarily by Dave Munro at Livermore.  I've always
felt if people were choosing tools based on their merits and not inertia,
marketing, etc it would be much more widely used.  But that's not my point!

Dave M.'s written a nice emacs package for yorick, and the prime way
people are supposed to run yorick is within emacs.  As for OSes, "Linux is
nice but I prefer emacs".  It would be very handy to have something like
Matlab's cell mode when working with Yorick source - both to navigate
source and to execute chunks.

I'm emailing this list since I have almost no familiarity with elisp.  I
wonder if it's simple to adapt some of the matlab-mode coding to add a
cell capability to editing Yorick source.  If someone is willing to hold
my hand or point me to the relevant .el matlab source, we'd be forever
grateful.

As things stand, the yorick emacs package lets you send the selected
region to the yorick interpreter session for execution.  It just wastes
time to constantly select a chunk, execute it, edit it a bit, re-select,
etc.

Thanks!
Dave