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

[Eric L. <Eri...@ma...>]

Hi David,

Cell mode support in matlab.el can be summed up like this:

% in your major mode
  (make-local-variable 'page-delimiter)
  (setq page-delimiter "^\\(\f\\|%% \\)")

then use forward-page to find the boundary of the cell, and run that region.

There is very little magic involved, and this is a common tactic for other modes as far as I know.

If you intend to copy stuff from matlab-mode, understand that many of the original authors are not around to provide releases that would allow your code to become a part of Emacs or the lisp archive later.

Enjoy
Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Strozzi, David J. [mailto:str...@ll...] 
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 12:53 PM
To: mat...@li...
Subject: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] matlab cell-like mode for Yorick

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


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