The latest push (1cb0661) contains the wildcard name fix.
)help member? works but is stored as memberq.help
Tim
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org>
wrote:
> Greetings! Thanks so much for looking at this!
>
> Take care,
>
> Tim Daly <axiom...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Camm,
> >
> > Axiom uses a program called 'tanglec' (in books/tanglec.c) to extract
> > 'chunks' from the source pamphlet files. The tanglec program will look
> for
> >
> > \begin{chunk}{somename}
> > source code goes here
> > \end{chunk}
> >
> > so given a filename and a chunk name it will extract the chunk to stdout
> > which are, by default, extracted to the equivalent filename, e.g.
> >
> > tanglec bookvol10.3.pamphlet retractable?.help >retractable?.help
> >
> > so the solution for output is to rename the chunk names not to use
> wildcards.
> > Thus I need to change it to read:
> >
> > \begin{chunk}{retractableq.help}
> >
> > When the lisp code is trying to find the help file named
> 'retractable?.help
> > I need to quietly mangle it to 'retractableq' and look for
> retractableq.help
> >
> > This seems a simple but, as we both know, there is no such thing as a
> > simple job. Nevertheless, I'm working on the fix.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 1:11 AM, William Sit <w...@ccny.cuny.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Camm, thanks for the explanation, which is way beyond my
> understanding. I get it that pathnames are more complicated than I realized.
> >
> > William
> >
> > William Sit
> > Professor Emeritus
> > Department of Mathematics
> > The City College of The City University of New York
> > New York, NY 10031
> > homepage: wsit.ccny.cuny.edu
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org>
> > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 9:24 AM
> > To: William Sit
> > Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] 20170401 sources
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> > William Sit <w...@ccny.cuny.edu> writes:
> >
> > > Hi, Camm:
> > >
> > > Isn't it true to use %3F for "?" on path and url names for html?
> (other punctuations like space %20 are commonly used as well)? If true then
> > there is no need to change function names ending with "?".
> > >
> >
> > Exactly what freedom a lisp implementation has in defining wild
> > pathnames is an interesting question. #'open must fail on a
> > wild-pathname. clisp and sbcl (and gcl) both recognize '*' and '?'
> as
> > pathname wildcards. If '?' is defined as non-wild, then of course
> > #'directory will not expand it in producing its output.
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > ============================================================
> =================
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------------------
> > Function WILD-PATHNAME-P
> >
> > Syntax:
> >
> > wild-pathname-p pathname &optional field-key => generalized-boolean
> >
> > Arguments and Values:
> >
> > pathname---a pathname designator.
> >
> > Field-key---one of :host, :device :directory, :name, :type,
> :version, or nil.
> >
> > generalized-boolean---a generalized boolean.
> >
> > Description:
> >
> > wild-pathname-p tests pathname for the presence of wildcard
> components.
> >
> > If pathname is a pathname (as returned by pathname) it represents
> the name used to open the file. This may be, but is not required to be, the
> > actual name of the file.
> >
> > If field-key is not supplied or nil, wild-pathname-p returns true if
> pathname has any wildcard components, nil if pathname has none. If
> > field-key
> > is non-nil, wild-pathname-p returns true if the indicated component
> of pathname is a wildcard, nil if the component is not a wildcard.
> >
> > Examples:
> >
> > ;;;The following examples are not portable. They are written to run
> > ;;;with particular file systems and particular wildcard conventions.
> > ;;;Other implementations will behave differently. These examples
> are
> > ;;;intended to be illustrative, not to be prescriptive.
> >
> > (wild-pathname-p (make-pathname :name :wild)) => true
> > (wild-pathname-p (make-pathname :name :wild) :name) => true
> > (wild-pathname-p (make-pathname :name :wild) :type) => false
> > (wild-pathname-p (pathname "s:>foo>**>")) => true ;Lispm
> > (wild-pathname-p (pathname :name "F*O")) => true ;Most places
> >
> > Affected By: None.
> >
> > Exceptional Situations:
> >
> > If pathname is not a pathname, a string, or a stream associated with
> a file an error of type type-error is signaled.
> >
> > See Also:
> >
> > pathname, logical-pathname, Section 20.1 (File System Concepts),
> Section 19.1.2 (Pathnames as Filenames)
> >
> > Notes:
> >
> > Not all implementations support wildcards in all fields. See Section
> 19.2.2.2.2 (:WILD as a Component Value) and Section 19.2.2.3 (Restrictions
> > on
> > Wildcard Pathnames).
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------------------
> > ============================================================
> =================
> >
> > > William
> > >
> > > William Sit
> > > Professor Emeritus
> > > Department of Mathematics
> > > The City College of The City University of New York
> > > New York, NY 10031
> > > homepage: wsit.ccny.cuny.edu
> > >
> > > ________________________________________
> > > From: Axiom-developer <axiom-developer-bounces+wyscc=
> sci.ccny.cuny....@nongnu.org> on behalf of Camm Maguire <
> c...@maguirefamily.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 12:53 PM
> > > To: Tim Daly
> > > Cc: axiom-dev
> > > Subject: [Axiom-developer] 20170401 sources
> > >
> > > Hi Tim! Congratulations on releasing a new set of sources!
> > >
> > > There is an issue with your '.help files from lisp' mechanism in
> > > tangle.lisp. You end up trying to open files like
> > > "..../retractable?.help" which is not ansi, as the pathname is
> wild.
> > > I'm building a patched version with '?' -> 'q' on help file
> writing,
> > > but I do not immediately see where to update the help system on
> > > reading.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you have a suggestion?
> > >
> > > Take care, and thanks again for all your axiom work!
> > > --
> > > Camm Maguire
> c...@maguirefamily.org
> > > ============================================================
> ==============
> > > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." --
> Baha'u'llah
> > >
> > >
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> > Camm Maguire
> c...@maguirefamily.org
> > ============================================================
> ==============
> > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." --
> Baha'u'llah
> >
>
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