mike clemow;

My Ubuntu box is trashed, otherwise I'd just check, but there's no menu command for print under Linux?

I did check for that before bothering my fellow ChucKists :¬) No, there isn't, though I suspect all three OS's have such a command in the kind of toolkit that also gave us stuff like file load/save/save-as/etc. The most likely reason for it's omission is probably that nobody saw any use for it. I think such a command (provided it would be simple to add) could be lots of fun. We can say that the purpose of livecoding (and arguably of any art) is to communicate thoughts and feelings but I think we have to admit that a practised programmer could well generate code that's too advanced and/or unusual for the audience to quickly grasp. I was thinking it would be a nice idea to allow people to take code home, perhaps to sign it. This would take away from the temporal nature of livecoding but could have other advantages that might be artistically interesting. That and it could be a funny parlour trick :¬). I'm not sure, perhaps it's there under Windows. I could saw HD's again and check. Kas.

Stephen Sinclair; I don't use it (emacs ftw!) Would you have the time to share some of your thoughts on the advantages of emacs for ChucKing? I looked at it but it's quite a daunting editor and I'd like to know a bit about the potential gains before investing time in it.

but I just tried to compile it quickly and it failed, so I can't help directly.

Hmmm. I found the Mini quite easy to compile, at least since there is a clear list of all that you need for it, on top of ChucK's dependencies. I just wish it would have a more intelligent "replace" function for shreds then always replacing the last one that was run. It's nice and simple, I like that. There are hotkeys for running code though not enough for editing it. emacs will solve all of those issues, I'm sure but that would go at the expense of the simplicity?

However, just wanted to mention that I bet it would be pretty easy to quickly write a little shell script to monitor files in a folder and spit them to a printer (through a postscript filter or even latex maybe), so you could just save your files into that folder and they'd print.

This sounds do-able, yes, Perhaps that's the method for me if I do decide to go through with this. Thanks! Kas.