Lawrence Bottorff <borg...@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Lawrence, > I'm looking at picolisp -- and wondering how it works, or better, why it > doesn't really work work with babel. First problem, I couldn't get any > form of picolisp to work in Emacs -- until I stopped starting Emacs with > [...] > I don't mean to complain or sound negative, but picolisp as is can't > really be included as a babel language, can it? Maybe it worked once, > but doesn't now? sometimes the bug actually sits in front of the computer, as we all know ;-) Apparently you are not aware of the 'session' concept of org source blocks (please refer to the org manual). This is nothing specific to ob-picolisp, but holds for all ob languages that do allow for sessions: ,---- | * Picolisp scr-block test | | #+BEGIN_SRC picolisp :session pil1 | (setq X1 (+ 3 4)) | #+END_SRC | | #+results: | : 7 | | | #+BEGIN_SRC picolisp :session pil1 | (setq X2 (+ X1 1)) | #+END_SRC | | #+results: | : 8 | | | #+BEGIN_SRC picolisp :session pil1 | (de foo1 (X) (+ X 2)) | #+END_SRC | | #+results: | : foo1 | | #+BEGIN_SRC picolisp :session pil1 :results raw | (setq X3 (foo1 8)) | #+END_SRC | | #+results: | 10 `---- And, with a session, you do have a related interactive repl buffer in Emacs called "pil1", thats reflects all evaluations of the code blocks in the org file, and allows for user input just like the PicoLisp repl: ,---- | (setq X1 (+ 3 4)) | 'org-babel-picolisp-eoe | : -> 7 | : -> org-babel-picolisp-eoe | : (setq X2 (+ X1 1)) | 'org-babel-picolisp-eoe | -> 8 | : -> org-babel-picolisp-eoe | : (de foo1 (X) (+ X 2)) | 'org-babel-picolisp-eoe | -> foo1 | : -> org-babel-picolisp-eoe | : (setq X3 (foo1 8)) | 'org-babel-picolisp-eoe | -> 10 | : -> org-babel-picolisp-eoe | : `---- Hope that helps -- cheers, Thorsten
