Yes, this and issues with very long line hanging emacs gave up using inferior picolisp mode for anything serious.
You can try M-x Term for a terminal emulator. then run pil + and use the documentaion (works fine with w3m for me) choose bash for shell if prompted, fish has some issues... PositronPro -------- Original Message -------- On Jan 20, 2019, 6:28 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > My elder son gave (lent?) me a screen so I don't have to ssh to the raspberry > pi anymore. (Which may not be a blessing in the end...) > > So, I have a crappy Buffalo keyboard, a non-x setting on my first generation > RP and I'm using screen/byobu to manage a number of terminal windows. > > For now, I have emacs and an inferior picolisp process. For some reason when > I was running the command from the menu I had an error saying that > /usr/lib/picolisp/bin/plmod did not exist, which was true, but I checked the > elisp code and could not find the place where that was called. So I decided > to run M-x run-picolisp and it was nice enough to ask me which command I > really wanted to run. > > Now, regarding the documentation, there does not seem to be a way to call it > from the picolisp-mode buffer. I tried the menu, I tried M-x picolisp-... to > see if there was a "document function at point" or something, to no avail. So > I'm left to open it in Lynx in a separate terminal, which is sub-optimal, > especially since emacs' w3 has a real weird way to render it... > > I'm currently trying the Picolisp Application Development chapter, which is a > nice way to walk through real picolisp code. > > So far, so good, but running 100% in text mode is, well, interesting, and I > thought I was not a mouse person... > > Jean-Christophe Helary > ----------------------------------------------- > http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
