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Sunday, 17th of February 2019, 19:52:27 UTC
3:58:42
beach
Good morning everyone!
4:41:26
pillton
Are people still using Emacs to edit code?
5:06:10
beach
I am. Why do you ask?
5:07:45
pillton
I got McClim running and I wondered what people were using.
5:08:19
beach
Well, (first) Climacs is OK, but not great for someone who are used to slime-indentation, etc.
5:08:32
beach
And Second Climacs is on hold.
5:08:50
beach
But the plan for Second Climacs is to be better than Emacs for editing Common Lisp code.
5:09:52
beach
Congratulations to getting McCLIM running! :)
5:11:15
loke
pillton: A Second Climacs would be nice, as it could perhaps be good at eidting Maxima code too :-)
5:11:33
loke
Climaxima is kinda useful now that copy and paste works :-)
5:13:01
pillton
I installed McCLIM for the purposes of trying Climaxima out and to write a few small applications.
5:13:58
loke
pillton: If you just want to run Climaxima, you can use the Appimage
5:14:00
beach
I have said this before, but I'll say it again: I think jackdaniel and all the other people working on McCLIM are doing a fantastic job. Thanks to them, I now firmly believe that McCLIM is over the hump. More people get excited by what we have and by the activity that they see, which will generate more activity and more interest. This is a truly exciting development.
5:14:08
loke
I will build a new one now that copy&paste works
5:14:19
loke
Actually, I think I'll do that right now.
5:15:55
beach
It took only 20 years or so for McCLIM to reach this point. :)
5:16:48
loke
Better late than never i guess
5:17:54
beach
I think it shows, for the umpteenth time, that there is no rush. We can take our time and do it right.
5:22:18
pillton
Perhaps a stupid question. How do you run two applications at once?
5:25:37
loke
pillton: You start them. Typically you just launch the main function in a new thread
5:26:00
loke
(make-thread #'clim-demo:demodemo)
5:27:09
loke
Of course, you can't then have activation gestures happening in one application that affects another.
5:27:18
pillton
Right. That is surprising.
5:27:30
loke
We've discussed aprpoaches to deal with that here, but it's not clear which is the ideal.
5:31:06
pillton
Is there notes of that discussion anywhere?
5:34:09
loke
pillton: Hmm, good question.
5:34:15
loke
There is a github bug on it, I think?
5:41:19
loke
pillton: OK, I have a runnable appimage of climaxima here:
5:41:27
loke
https://github.com/lokedhs/maxima-client
5:41:51
loke
here: https://loke.keybase.pub/climaxima-x86_64.AppImage
5:53:12
loke
It has integrated documentation now
5:55:00
loke
pillton: If (when) you see problems, just create a bug report. I love having bug reports filed on my work :-)
6:00:53
pillton
Ok. I cannot run the AppImage as it appears Debian stretch doesn't support squashfs.
6:01:19
pillton
I'm going to have a break. I'll check in later.
6:14:04
loke
I built that thing on debian
6:14:16
loke
You probably just need to have FUSE support installed.
7:39:52
loke
josrr's fix seems to work when it comes to scrolling lists
7:40:03
loke
it doesn't fix the problem when scrolling the panels in the drawing tests though
7:45:13
jackdaniel
he didn't say it fixes the problem in drawing-tests
Monday, 18th of February 2019, 7:52:27 UTC