I'll be heading over to the MCL mailing list with this shortly, but I
thought I would check in here since youse guys are so quick to respond.
I have the MCL 5 demo. I have asdf.lisp. Recently pulled down using
ViewCVS or whatever that web thingy is, direct to Mac OS X. (This
problem also applies to UFFI and my own source, but I am using ASDF as
my example. Note also that I have no problem with the same source under
Lispworks Trial for mac.)
I have to use the MCL5 File>Open Unix... menu item or mcl thinks it is
one line long. Fine, I use "Open Unix...".
But i do not really want to open it. I want to load it. Unfortunately,
there is no load-unix function. Loading it yields no definitions, i am
guessing because the reader also sees one long line, a comment.
So I open-unix it, select all and evaluate and asdf gets built. But now
ASDF cannot find anything inside uffi.asd, i guess because it thinks it
is all one comment line.
Am I missing something insanely simple? Or do I have to write a little
code to convert Lisp source to something MCL can eat? Other?
kenny
In article <·····························@nyctyp02-ge0.rdc-nyc.rr.com>,
Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> I'll be heading over to the MCL mailing list with this shortly, but I
> thought I would check in here since youse guys are so quick to respond.
>
> I have the MCL 5 demo. I have asdf.lisp. Recently pulled down using
> ViewCVS or whatever that web thingy is, direct to Mac OS X. (This
> problem also applies to UFFI and my own source, but I am using ASDF as
> my example. Note also that I have no problem with the same source under
> Lispworks Trial for mac.)
>
> I have to use the MCL5 File>Open Unix... menu item or mcl thinks it is
> one line long. Fine, I use "Open Unix...".
>
> But i do not really want to open it. I want to load it. Unfortunately,
> there is no load-unix function.
OK, I just noticed the File menu items to load or compile unix files,
but that does not help ASDF with its batch processing of the unix files.
I guess I better just write a conversion utility.
kt
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:12:29 GMT, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> In article <·····························@nyctyp02-ge0.rdc-nyc.rr.com>,
> Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>> I'll be heading over to the MCL mailing list with this shortly, but I
>> thought I would check in here since youse guys are so quick to respond.
>>
>> I have the MCL 5 demo. I have asdf.lisp. Recently pulled down using
>> ViewCVS or whatever that web thingy is, direct to Mac OS X. (This
>> problem also applies to UFFI and my own source, but I am using ASDF as
>> my example. Note also that I have no problem with the same source under
>> Lispworks Trial for mac.)
>>
>> I have to use the MCL5 File>Open Unix... menu item or mcl thinks it is
>> one line long. Fine, I use "Open Unix...".
>>
>> But i do not really want to open it. I want to load it. Unfortunately,
>> there is no load-unix function.
> OK, I just noticed the File menu items to load or compile unix files,
> but that does not help ASDF with its batch processing of the unix files.
> I guess I better just write a conversion utility.
There is a conversion utility built in to MCL, though not particularly
well documented.
If you open a file in Fred and it looks like a single line, type <ctrl-x>
<ctrl-f> to convert the linefeeds to carriage returns, thus making it
readable to MCL.
And if you have trouble remembering this, as I do, then select Tools ->
Fred Commands, and start typing "linefeed" in the "Contains:" box. By
the time you get to the "f" there will be only one match, a function
called (ED-XFORM-LINEFEEDS), whose keyboard shortcut is listed as c-x
c-f.
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In article <············@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
Dave Seaman <·······@no.such.host> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:12:29 GMT, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> > In article <·····························@nyctyp02-ge0.rdc-nyc.rr.com>,
> > Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >> I'll be heading over to the MCL mailing list with this shortly, but I
> >> thought I would check in here since youse guys are so quick to respond.
> >>
> >> I have the MCL 5 demo. I have asdf.lisp. Recently pulled down using
> >> ViewCVS or whatever that web thingy is, direct to Mac OS X. (This
> >> problem also applies to UFFI and my own source, but I am using ASDF as
> >> my example. Note also that I have no problem with the same source under
> >> Lispworks Trial for mac.)
> >>
> >> I have to use the MCL5 File>Open Unix... menu item or mcl thinks it is
> >> one line long. Fine, I use "Open Unix...".
> >>
> >> But i do not really want to open it. I want to load it. Unfortunately,
> >> there is no load-unix function.
>
> > OK, I just noticed the File menu items to load or compile unix files,
> > but that does not help ASDF with its batch processing of the unix files.
>
> > I guess I better just write a conversion utility.
>
> There is a conversion utility built in to MCL, though not particularly
> well documented.
>
> If you open a file in Fred and it looks like a single line, type <ctrl-x>
> <ctrl-f> to convert the linefeeds to carriage returns, thus making it
> readable to MCL.
>
> And if you have trouble remembering this, as I do, then select Tools ->
> Fred Commands, and start typing "linefeed" in the "Contains:" box. By
> the time you get to the "f" there will be only one match, a function
> called (ED-XFORM-LINEFEEDS), whose keyboard shortcut is listed as c-x
> c-f.
You can also set CCL::*DO-UNIX-HACK* to T and MCL will do this
conversion automatically when you open a file. (You can also meta-. on
this variable to get the source code that does this work, at which point
you can customize the behavior to your heart's content.)
rg
In article <·······························@nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov>,
Ron Garret <·········@flownet.com> wrote:
> In article <············@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
> Dave Seaman <·······@no.such.host> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:12:29 GMT, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> > > In article <·····························@nyctyp02-ge0.rdc-nyc.rr.com>,
> > > Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> I'll be heading over to the MCL mailing list with this shortly, but I
> > >> thought I would check in here since youse guys are so quick to respond.
> > >>
> > >> I have the MCL 5 demo. I have asdf.lisp. Recently pulled down using
> > >> ViewCVS or whatever that web thingy is, direct to Mac OS X. (This
> > >> problem also applies to UFFI and my own source, but I am using ASDF as
> > >> my example. Note also that I have no problem with the same source under
> > >> Lispworks Trial for mac.)
> > >>
> > >> I have to use the MCL5 File>Open Unix... menu item or mcl thinks it is
> > >> one line long. Fine, I use "Open Unix...".
> > >>
> > >> But i do not really want to open it. I want to load it. Unfortunately,
> > >> there is no load-unix function.
> >
> > > OK, I just noticed the File menu items to load or compile unix files,
> > > but that does not help ASDF with its batch processing of the unix files.
> >
> > > I guess I better just write a conversion utility.
> >
> > There is a conversion utility built in to MCL, though not particularly
> > well documented.
> >
> > If you open a file in Fred and it looks like a single line, type <ctrl-x>
> > <ctrl-f> to convert the linefeeds to carriage returns, thus making it
> > readable to MCL.
> >
> > And if you have trouble remembering this, as I do, then select Tools ->
> > Fred Commands, and start typing "linefeed" in the "Contains:" box. By
> > the time you get to the "f" there will be only one match, a function
> > called (ED-XFORM-LINEFEEDS), whose keyboard shortcut is listed as c-x
> > c-f.
>
> You can also set CCL::*DO-UNIX-HACK* to T and MCL will do this
> conversion automatically when you open a file. (You can also meta-. on
> this variable to get the source code that does this work, at which point
> you can customize the behavior to your heart's content.)
>
> rg
Thx, Ron. Note to Lisp newbies: I actually found this on my own by using
apropos on "unix", assuming that the three unix file menu items were
achieved via (let ((<some-unix-special> t)) <usual-load-logic>).
Unfortunately, wrapping the asdf build of uffi in such a dynamic binding
did not work. :( hey, maybe I mistyped it, I'll try again. when it did
not work I just figured I had guessed wrong.
Thx to everyone for the pointers.
kenny
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:12:29 GMT, Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> I guess I better just write a conversion utility.
You should be able to use recode:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/recode.html>
Probably something like
recode mac..latin1 *.lisp
Cheers,
Edi.
--
Lisp is not dead, it just smells funny.
Real email: (replace (subseq ·········@agharta.de" 5) "edi")
Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> writes:
> Am I missing something insanely simple? Or do I have to write a little
> code to convert Lisp source to something MCL can eat? Other?
I found that the simplest solution was to add this to my init.lisp file
for MCL. Put init.lisp in the same folder as the demo:
(setq ccl::*linefeed-equals-newline* t)
Then MCL can read both Mac-style and Unix-style files.
--
Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute