@ Brian
You say you don't use iCloud, and you've given up on iOS Files app.
You're denying yourself the most robust way to move J scripts between your
iOS device and your Mac.
And (probably) the easiest to setup and use. Though that may not be saying
much.
If I had 10 coders in my team, I'd put one of them full-time on exploring
all the ways of moving text between iOS and Mac. Because it'll be a
full-time job. If you don't believe me, ask me why… but I won't wallow in
the shambles here.
With iOS 17.1 a new feature appeared unannounced. If you copy text to the
Mac's general pasteboard (what used to be called the clipboard), it's
visible to the general pasteboard of any iOS device on your Wi-fi hub, and
vice-versa.
I don't trust it. It looks too good to be true – and it is, because Mike
tells me it can crash iOS.
But if you want to play with this shiny new Apple feature, here's a recipe
to get you started:
Launch jios on your iOS device.
Launch jqt on your Mac and pick a suitable multi-line verb, e.g foldtext
foldtext
4 : 0
if. 0 e. $y do. '' return. end.
y=. ; x&foldpara each cutpara y
y }.~ - (LF ~: |.y) i. 1
)
Clip-copy just the body of the verb, i.e.
if. 0 e. $y do. '' return. end.
y=. ; x&foldpara each cutpara y
y }.~ - (LF ~: |.y) i. 1
In the Home scene of jios, enter the sentence:
] z=: getclip''
if. 0 e. $y do. '' return. end.
y=. ; x&foldpara each cutpara y
y }.~ - (LF ~: |.y) i. 1
(you may see an alert asking your permission to paste from your Mac before
it returns the copied text.)
Now reconstitute your verb like this:
myfoldtext=: 4 : z
Knowing how Edit works, using getclip is sturdier than pasting text (even
ascii text) directly into the Edit scene. Right now I'm working on a
replacement for the UIKit object (UITextView) used by Edit and Home,
because it's a can of worms. It was never designed to do anything so simple
as emulate a tty.
BTW, to minimize the risk of jios crashing, free up as much memory as you
can by terminating all other running apps.
And if you simply must paste more than 1 line of J code into Edit, avoid
bracketing it with {{…}} or even 3 : 0 … )
Safer still, turn off Syntax Coloring.
On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 18:49, 'Mike Day' via Programming <
programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
> Glad that was useful.
>
> You mention copy & paste. Ian will have wise things to say about this,
> which I won't understand, but one of the things that "appears" to
> wipe my Jios ipad installation is copy from elsewhere or from the J
> session
> itself, and paste into a J edit session, even when bracketed by
> {{)n and }}
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 27 Dec 2023, at 01:28, Brian Schott <schott.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mike and Ian,
> >
> > Mike, your answer was very helpful because I could not get the iphone to
> be
> > recognized by my desktop Mac when I tried to link them with a USB cable
> (I
> > don't use icloud). An error keeps occurring, so I gave up on the ios
> files
> > app. But your mention of a folder creation button made me go back to the
> > files app and it seems to work fine to create the folder and then I can
> use
> > the j open command to create a blank file in the new directory using some
> > of the paths suggested by Ian's message.
> >
> > I'm still shaky on saving the copy/pasted text (from the email I use to
> > transport the text) into the 'open'ed (edited) file. I cannot find a save
> > command after the paste, so I'm not sure if it's saved. But the load
> seems
> > to get the file so it must be saved, I guess.
> >
> > Thanks to you both,
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 5:36 PM 'Mike Day' via Programming <
> >> programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Don't know about iphone, but I've got a couple of folders/directories
> >> under ~user in my iPad installation of Jios; here's the official info:
> >> JVERSION
> >> Engine: j903/j64/iOS
> >> beta-k: GPL3/2023-04-16T23:21:00
> >> Platform: iOS/iPadOS
> >> Version: 903.2 57
> >> Installer: App Store
> >> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
> >>
> >> I think I "created" them by copying folders with scripts from iCloud,
> but
> >> I see there is a folder-create icon in the Files app's display.
> >>
> >> Hope that's useful,
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >>>> On 26 Dec 2023, at 20:48, Brian Schott <schott.br...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Can the user create a subdirectory under j/user and fill it with .ijs
> >> files
> >>> in j90x on iphone?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
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