[chuck-users] chuck shell...

[Andrew C. Smith]

Hey, so how can I upgrade my Mini to the CVS version, with all the
file IO capabilities? Or, even 1.2.1.2? I successfully compiled the
CVS command line version, but I've never compiled the Mini. I just
found myself liking the pretty colored text.

Andrew

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Kassen<signal.automatique at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, Kurt.
>
> I think the shell has been close to abandoned, which is a shame as
> there were some really good ideas planned for it. Right now the shell
> offers little over a plain commandline; you can enter code but if you
> make a single typo (and who doesn't?) you need to start all over again
> as there is no buffer for commands. There were plans for a way to
> navigate the scope of running code from the shell (to update it) but
> those never materialised. I'm still a bit sad about that as those
> plans were amongst the most exciting plans for ChucK ever, IMHO.
>
> I think the Mini mostly replaced it; it does all that the shell does
> and more though of course it does need to be used with a Gui; that
> might be a downside to some.
>
> Personally I tried to use the shell for a while but I found it a bit
> clumsy so I'm curious why and how you use it.
>
> Yours,
> Kas.
>
> 2009/9/9 kurt <sobrilliant at gmail.com>:
>> Hello all-
>> First of all, I love ChucK shell!!!
>> But I wondered if there are any plans for ChucK shell improvements in the
>> works?  It would be nice to have some normal shell type stuff...
>> Tab-completion, command line history (it would be sweet to 'up-arrow', then
>> 'enter key' to keep adding the same shred), the ability to change
>> directories (or at least the ../../ syntax would be nice, cause, as it
>> stands, one has to use absolute path names for files not in the working
>> directory), and to move the cursor with the arrow keys to edit commands.
>>  Also it might be cool if when querying active shreds (the '^' command)  it
>> would be cool if the child shreds were indented a level from the parent
>> shreds.  It would be nice if you could add and remove shreds by name (eg.
>> all shreds named "foo.ck" could be removed by some command like '-! foo", i
>> dunno?).  I feel kinda lame asking about this stuff, but I figured if some
>> awesome ChucK dev out there was thinking about spiffying up the shell for
>> the next ChucK release they might be stoked to know someone out there was
>> exited about potential improvements.
>> thanks.
>> K.
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