tj64/picolisp-by-example

is there an alternative download for the pdf apart from scribd

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zcaudate commented

I really want to go through the 2 books and scribd is very annoying, especially as it does not let downloads. Is there an alternative link for it?

zcaudate commented

I didn't realise that it can be found here: http://software-lab.de/down.html

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tj64 commented

Hi, in the beginning I found browsing the docs on scribd with the conkeror browser quite convenient, but then they changed their interface and now its really annoying.

Besides using the pdf versions there is, at least for Emacs users on GNU/Linux, another very convenient option to search the PicoLisp books:

  1. convert them to text with the 'pdftotext' commandline utility and put both .txt files into the same directory
  2. get Emacs library 'helm'
  3. use `helm-do-grep' to search both files simultaneously for certain patterns.

I like that very much, it can be done inside Emacs, it is fast and operates on plain text buffers, thus copying matched text-parts is easy. In comparison to `helm-do-grep' searching in and copying from pdf files really sucks.

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zcaudate commented

Thanks Thorsen.

The PDF is fine for me

Another quick question. What is the best way to get picolisp up and running in emacs. It'll be nice to have autocomplete if that is avaliable when I'm still learning.

On 06/02/2014, at 12:49, Thorsten notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, in the beginning I found browsing the docs on scribd with the conkeror browser quite convenient, but then they changed their interface and now its really annoying.

Besides using the pdf versions there is, at least for Emacs users on GNU/Linux, another very convenient option to search the PicoLisp books:

convert them to text with 'pdftotext' commandline utility and put both .txt files into the same directory
get Emacs library 'helm'
use helm-do-grep' to search both files simultaneously for certain patterns. I like that very much, it can be done inside Emacs, it is fast and operates on plain text buffers, thus copying matched text-parts is easy. In comparison tohelm-do-grep' searching in and copying from pdf files really sucks.

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tj64 commented

There are basically three ways to use picolisp with emacs:

  1. the picolisp way
    • call '(em) once in the picolisp repl to switch repl line editor and 'edit function permanently to emacs-mode
    • then work in the picolisp repl with emacs keybindings, and open an emacsclient window by calling '(edit ...) whenever you want to edit a definition or a symbol
  2. the emacs way
    • use the files in the lib/el/ folder in the picolisp distribution to start an inferior-picolisp process and connect that process with a buffer in picolisp-mode.
  3. the slime way
    • get slime and swank-picolisp.l (from Tomas Hlavaty) and follow the setup instructions to get a sophisticated slime/swank environment for editing picolisp from emacs
  4. and 2. are probably the easiest, 1. and 3. the best approaches.