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- Below is a brief description of the files in this distribution. See
- the file example.emacs to use this code.
-
- cl-shell.el - provides a major mode (cl-shell-mode) for running Common
- Lisp (CL) as an Emacs subprocess. Features include direct (ie not
- through a temp file) evaluation and in-package compilation of forms
- from lisp-mode buffers, type-ahead and a history mechanism for the
- cl-shell buffer, and pop-up help facilities for the CL functions
- documentation, macroexpand and describe. The extensions for Lucid
- Common Lisp in the file cl-lucid.el provide pop-up arglists and
- source file editing. Other extensions are provided in cl-pcl.el and
- cl-flavors.el which allow editing source files of methods. The code
- in cl-shell.el, however, is stand-alone and does not require any of
- these. Provides a general mechanism for communication between CL and
- Emacs which does not rely on extra processes.
- A more detailed description may be found in the file
- cl-shell.doc and at the top of the file cl-shell.el. To use the
- code, you should either copy cl-shell, shell-history, cl-lucid,
- cl-pcl, cl-clos and cl-flavors into your emacs/lisp source
- directory, or add the directory containing these files to the Emacs
- variable load-path. Then put these lines into your .emacs file:
- (setq *cl-program* <pathname-of-your-lisp-program>)
- (autoload 'run-cl "cl-shell" "" t)
- and type the command "M-x run-cl". You can then get a list of key
- bindings using "M-x describe-function cl-shell-mode". To get proper
- Common Lisp indentations, you should also put the following line
- in your .emacs file:
- (setq lisp-indent-hook 'common-lisp-indent-hook)
-
- cl-lucid.el, cl-clos.el, cl-pcl.el, cl-flavors.el - these provide
- extensions to the code in cl-shell.el. They are all loaded
- automatically when you type "M-x run-cl" if the corresponding
- features are present in the CL world. They allow the user to compile
- methods directly (i.e. not through a temp file) and to find
- source files of symbols with multiple definitions.
-
- shell-history.el - a general command history mechanism for shell buffers.
- This is loaded by cl-shell.el. You can also use it for other shells.
-
- source-file-extensions.lisp - This file is an extensions to Lucid CL
- which records source-files for defvar, defparameter, defconstant,
- deftype, and the definition constructs in FLAVORS or PCL. It is
- independent of the Emacs Lisp code described above, although it
- enhances its usefulness.
-
- cl-obvius.el - This is an extension for running OBVIUS (Object-Based
- Vision and Image Understanding System), a Common Lisp program which
- is also available via anonymous ftp from whitechapel.media.mit.edu
-
- completion.el, always-complete.el, advise.el - completion.el was
- written at Thinking Machines Corporation, and provides a very useful
- typing completion system for Emacs. Advise.el is an advice system
- for Emacs Lisp, also written at Thinking Machines Corp.
- Always-complete.el, which requires advise.el and loads completion.el,
- is an extension to completion.el written by Alan Ruttenberg at the MIT
- Media Lab. It prints the completions in the minibuffer as you type,
- reminding you of their availability. You can either load completion.el
- by itself, or load always-complete.el (which loads completion.el).
-
- misc-extensions.el - A few useful miscellaneous extensions to emacs.
- Most useful are a mouse-click function which copies the s-expression
- at the mouse to the point, and code to fill comments correctly in
- lisp-mode. This file does not set any key bindings -- it only defines
- a set of functions, and gives a list of (commented out) recommended
- key bindings. This allows users to choose which of the extensions
- to use, by putting the appropriate key bindings in their .emacs files.
-
- The source code is available, subject to the usual Emacs disclaimers,
- as a compressed tar file via anonymous ftp:
-
- whitechapel.media.mit.edu : pub/Emacs-cl-shell.tar.Z
-
- Whitechapel's net address is 18.85.0.125. After uncompressing the
- file, you can list its contents with "tar tvf Emacs-cl-shell.tar" and
- extract the files with "tar xvf Emacs-cl-shell.tar".
-
- Send my your E-mail address if you want me to notify you of future
- releases/bug fixes. Comments and suggestions should be sent via
- E-mail to eero@media-lab.media.mit.edu.
-
- Eero Simoncelli
- Vision Science Group
- MIT Media Laboratory, E15-385
- Cambridge, MA 02139
-