Ian (et al),
I tried your getclip'' experiment. When I execute getclip'' , the return
was <UNSET> . There was no alert at the desktop, asking for my permission
to paste, I got the same <UNSET> .
And then when I enter "myfoldtext" on jios I see "4 : <UNSET>" . So maybe
I'm doing something wrong.
I have successfully entered 2 scripts in a subdirectory named "nn" and
somehow I saved them. But I don't really know how they got saved from the
editing window where I pasted them. I got the editing window open using ".o
but I don't see a save option, or a run option or a load option from there.
Thanks,
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 5:34 PM Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @ 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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