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For example, I like to display the time-stamp along with the version number when I am debugging because all too often I end up with two or more invocations of a program running, all with the same version number, and have difficulty figuring out which one is the version that I most recently modified. It can be handy to have access to this time stamp from within a Tcl program. WJP One of the nice features of emacs is that it will automatically time-stamp files for you whenever you save them. dde services XEmacs System'' does list the service. This is because XEmacs chooses not to respond to non-specific DDE requests. Note that dde services ' doesn't list the XEmacs service.

#Text mode in aquamacs code#

One emacs trick to exploit is to put the magic code '-*-Tcl-*-' into one of the first lines of the file, so it always is recognized as Tcl source code. tcl extension), use the m-x-tcl-mode command. If you don't get Tcl mode (perhaps because your file does not have the. tcl extension, and you should get Tcl mode automatically.

#Text mode in aquamacs how to#

In, Bob Techentin writes the following to someone asking how to write Tcl code in Emacs and get the emacs syntax helps, etc.: Emacs tcl mode only makes it very easy to use this tcl feature.) de. (Of course, this is only possible due to the dynamic nature of tcl, and is not special to the emacs tcl mode. Now - without restarting the application and clicking through again - just retry the malicious GUI action that has triggered the error before and see the outcome. Just edit the according proc (and fill some debugging puts in it, if you feel the needs, you will see the output in a special emacs buffer) and send the changed proc with tcl-send-buffer (per default bound to C-c M-a) to the running interpreter. Don't exit your application, after you have encountered the error. Not so, if you have started your applicatiom from emacs tcl mode. Normally, this means exit your application, edit the code, restart your application, click through the GUI again, fill in the necessary data here and there and then you reach the point of interest again. Tk's error message may give you the reason, what's going wrong or at least an idea what debugging 'puts' to insert, to get more insight. Then you click, let's say, a button, and you have to realize, that there is an error in the command bound to that button. Now you click through your GUI, filling in data here and there. Have you ever have debugged a tk application? It's very easy to start the whole script from inside emacs (with the tcl mode command tcl-send-buffer, by default bound to C-c M-a). That said, the tcl-mode has some very nice features, that really ease your work, if you are an emacs addict, like me. And there are other, mostly minor problems. I use instead Donal Fellows highlighting code from. For example, I'm not that happy with the standard highlight regexp's. It is true, that some details of the standard tcl-mode of emacs (I'm talking about GNU emacs, don't know much about Xemacs) could profit of a little bit work by an elisp guru. A little bitty bit of elisp, that looks up tcl man pages can be found on the elisp page.

Both gnumacs and xemacs have some problems with comments, braces, and so on.

The biggest problem is a good tcl-mode for emacs.

Ok, I'm not really in tune with wiki writing style, so I'll just dump stuff here ( davidw): JBezoar - new emacs package to insert templated code interactively Just drop elisp specific items into the elisp page, mentioned above. Quite a bit of available elisp implements functionality useful to Tcl coders, including syntax highlighting, a first-class REPL with inferior-tcl.

#Text mode in aquamacs for mac os x#

There's also Aquamacs for Mac OS X at.

Both GNU Emacs and Xemacs are available for Windows.

Is there more than one program that is emacs? As Oustervote in 2001 concluded that emacs remains the single most widely-used programming editor among Tcl practitioners, although all vi variants together appear to sum to a larger total.