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Controlling the terminal with Common Lisp (2020)

91 points by winkywooster 5y ago

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cain 5y ago
Cool! I went over something similar in an old blog post (https://joellord.dev/blog/posts/Build-a-Text-Editor-in-Lisp---Part-2.html https://joellord.dev/blog/posts/Build-a-Text-Editor-in-Lisp-...) only I did the C portion in Common Lisp too, using CFFI + Grovel.
- WalterGR 5y ago
  Nice. Is there going to be a part 3 of your series?
  - cain 5y ago
    I hope so. I have a part 3 and 4 written locally: I just need to find time to edit them.
rcgorton 5y ago
Uh, Lisp is NOT capable of doing command line support WITHOUT C interfaces? REALLY?
WalterGR 5y ago
Lots of great articles about Common Lisp on that site: https://turtleware.eu/ https://turtleware.eu/ The second part of the article was submitted about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576447
- jackdaniel 5y ago
  Thanks!
tempodox 5y ago
Wow, mouse-over the Lisp code in this article. The coloring of nested expressions is awesome. I wish my editor could do that.
- johnisgood 5y ago
  You mean the background? Because otherwise I do have such a thing in Emacs, it is called Rainbow Delimiters.
  - tempodox 5y ago
    Vim has something analogous, as “static” syntax coloring, but my vim is mouse-agnostic and thus can't react to mouse-overs.
- ootsootsoots 5y ago
  Just adding tapping on it does the same in Firefox on iOS Something like an auto-select of the code that makes up the entire scope for the line in question. Gonna have to see if I can get vim to do that.
- cyberbanjo 5y ago
  I noticed something similar recently in the GNU Guix docs, try mousing over the S-expressions https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Database-Services.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Database-Services.h... Your editor probably can do that! Emacs and VSCode at least both can. Search for 'rainbow blocks' or 'rainbow parens' or 'rainbow delimiters' extensions.
  - openfuture 5y ago
    You can also click the functions to jump to definition (they are not only colored, they are also hyperlinks!)
    - agumonkey 5y ago
      that is cute, next thing you know and it will launch a guile.js repl to run sandboxed tutorials
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91 points by winkywooster 5y ago

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cain 5y ago

Cool! I went over something similar in an old blog post (https://joellord.dev/blog/posts/Build-a-Text-Editor-in-Lisp---Part-2.html https://joellord.dev/blog/posts/Build-a-Text-Editor-in-Lisp-...) only I did the C portion in Common Lisp too, using CFFI + Grovel.

WalterGR 5y ago
Nice. Is there going to be a part 3 of your series?
- cain 5y ago
  I hope so. I have a part 3 and 4 written locally: I just need to find time to edit them.

rcgorton 5y ago

Uh, Lisp is NOT capable of doing command line support WITHOUT C interfaces? REALLY?

WalterGR 5y ago

Lots of great articles about Common Lisp on that site: https://turtleware.eu/ https://turtleware.eu/ The second part of the article was submitted about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576447

jackdaniel 5y ago
Thanks!

tempodox 5y ago

Wow, mouse-over the Lisp code in this article. The coloring of nested expressions is awesome. I wish my editor could do that.

johnisgood 5y ago
You mean the background? Because otherwise I do have such a thing in Emacs, it is called Rainbow Delimiters.
- tempodox 5y ago
  Vim has something analogous, as “static” syntax coloring, but my vim is mouse-agnostic and thus can't react to mouse-overs.
ootsootsoots 5y ago
Just adding tapping on it does the same in Firefox on iOS Something like an auto-select of the code that makes up the entire scope for the line in question. Gonna have to see if I can get vim to do that.
cyberbanjo 5y ago
I noticed something similar recently in the GNU Guix docs, try mousing over the S-expressions https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Database-Services.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Database-Services.h... Your editor probably can do that! Emacs and VSCode at least both can. Search for 'rainbow blocks' or 'rainbow parens' or 'rainbow delimiters' extensions.
- openfuture 5y ago
  You can also click the functions to jump to definition (they are not only colored, they are also hyperlinks!)
  - agumonkey 5y ago
    that is cute, next thing you know and it will launch a guile.js repl to run sandboxed tutorials

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