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

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

Thanks a lot for your reply!  Yes it was a while ago.  I will probably not
have time to look at this for a little while, but will keep it handy.

Dave

On 6/15/12 10:02 AM, "Eric Ludlam" <Eri...@ma...> wrote:

>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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