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
>
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