Gary Highberger writes:
> I'm teaching myself GNU Smalltalk. > • Dual boot Macbook Air running Ubuntu 20.04 > • GST 3.2.5 > • Documentation: > https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/gst.txt > Bluebook > > 1. Does Emacs support gst? Neither .st file text highlighting nor > interactor mode appear to work. The documentation says gst works with Emacs. Yes. The gst source distribution contains smalltalk-mode. Or you can use the newer version smalltalk-mode from ELPA: M-x package-install smalltalk-mode > > 2. Is pi and Float supported? The class extend example (area and > circumference methods) doesn't work. Yes. pi is not pre-defined though. > > 3. Does gst have a separate editor mode? The documentation implies it does. > It has a gst-mode that make smalltalk REPL works in emacs. However it is not maintained for a long time so I don't know. Ro are you talking about somethine else? > 4. I'm using vim as my editor and loading my program using FileStream > fileIn: 'myfile.st'. I'm debugging using printNl. Is this the best way? Vim > knows st keywords. That works too. > > 5. Does the web server, swazoo, and framework, seaside, work? I couldn't > get them to run. Yes. However I haven't try that for a long time. > > 6. My application is realtime machinery control with web page UI. > > 7. Does gst-browser work? You mean the gtk GUI? Yes, but I am afraid not many people use that so get help is not easy. Derek
