[Chicago] [Editor]Python Auto Fill

[Atul Varma]

Thanks for the comments, Ian.  I didn't see the lightning talk at
PyCon, though from what you described, I wish I did.  Using a
stack-based approach sounds really interesting, I'll have to look into
that (and Oberon).

I agree that Pymacs would definitely make a good lightning talk topic.
 I can give one of those the next time we do lightning talks.  As for
the Pymacs API, it's actually pretty nice and straightforward: you can
just use the "Pymacs.lisp" object to access the entire elisp API,
which is documented here:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp-manual/html_node/index.html

I think the pymdev source file is actually pretty useful as a simple
example of using the Pymacs API, too; the section "Public module
helper functions" contains some basic functionality that wraps the
elisp API in some of the ways you mentioned:

  http://www.toolness.com/pymdev/pymdev.py

I do wish there was an easier way to set up Pymacs, though; and
perhaps a simplified high-level Pythonic wrapper to the elisp API
would be useful, too.

- Atul

On 3/9/07, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> Atul Varma wrote:
> > I've posted my Python Emacs development module here, with documentation:
> >
> >   http://www.toolness.com/pymdev
> >
> > Feedback is appreciated.  If anyone's interested (and there's enough
> > time), I could also give a quick 5-minute presentation on it at
> > tonight's meeting.
>
> Did you see that lightning talk at PyCon that involved clicking and
> stacks on the UI?  It was a little vague, but it reminded me of Oberon,
> and I think of pymdev too -- though using something more Forthish made
> composition a bit easier, I think.
>
> I'd definitely be interested in Pymacs in general, though admittedly
> either people will care about it (because they use Emacs) or it will be
> totally boring and useless.  Lightning talk material?
>
> I feel like if I just understood a little bit of the Pymacs API (and
> hence the Emacs API) I could do most of what I want.  I probably want...
>   mmmm... the filename, current position of the point, ability to change
> the contents (treating it as one big string) and save that content, move
> the point around.  Maybe that's it?  I bet there's a lot of interesting
> things that could happen just using that.  People get really excited
> about TextMate extensions, but I suspect in part because they are really
> easy to write, and Emacs is more intimidating.  (Of course people get
> excited about Emacs extensions too...)
>
>
> --
> Ian Bicking | ianb at colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>