[info-mcl] digitool (MCL) / clozure (OpenMCL)

[Ron Garret]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Thomas Russ wrote:

>
> On Oct 10, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
>
>> Right now
>> the fact that I can't access OpenMCL except through a terminal (and
>> it doesn't even have Gnu readline) is the only show stopper for me.
>> (By minimal GUI I basically mean textedit plus the ability to double-
>> click on a close paren to select a sexpr, and/or hit "enter" to
>> evaluate it.)
>
> OpenMcl works with slime.  That provides the items that you need to
> get this minimal functionality.

Yeah, but I want this minimal functionality not just for the  
functionality per se but also to use as a model of how to interface  
with Cocoa.

The really big picture here is that I have some ideas I want to try  
out regarding new methodologies for code development that involve  
storing source code in a relational database rather than in files.   
To realize these ambitions I need to be able to open a window, fram  
some text into it, let the user edit it, and then extract the result  
WITHOUT having to store the text into a file first.  I haven't a clue  
how to go about doing that at the moment, but if I had the code for a  
simple editor window of the sort that I describe I'm pretty confident  
that I could adapt it to my needs.  Back when I had Fred, it was  
three lines of code.  That's pretty much my benchmark for success.

rg