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Sending SKILL commands to a running instance of ICFB

gsimard

Hi all !

 

 I was wondering if it would be possible to send SKILL instructions to a running instance of ICFB, just as if I was typing them in the console of the ICFB, but from an external process. The idea is to use my favorite editor (emacs) and being able to interact with the ICFB process (sending code, retrieving replies, in the best scenario).

 

Thank you for any advice !

Guillaume

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  •  Same here for "vi", never went past the tutorial :)

     

    I have a seemingly obvious question related to ports in SKILL, when invoking (infile "/tmp/skill-pipe") in the icfb, one usually has to keep the return value in a variable for later usage with reading and writing functions. In the icfb, however, the result of invoking (infile ...) is something like port:"/tmp/skill-pipe". Isn't it possible to use this string as a variable in itself to access the file ? ie:

    (infile "/tmp/skill-pipe") => port:"/tmp/skill-pipe"

    (lineread port:"/tmp/skill-pipe")

    This will fail because clearly it thinks I'm trying to do a range between unbound variable "port" and string "/tmp/skill-pipe".

    In Lisp (but not SKILL it seems), port:"/tmp/skill-pipe" would be something called a READ synthax, which means you could use it as the port itself instead of using a variable holding the value of the port as in:

     p = (infile "/tmp/skill-pipe") => port:"/tmp/skill-pipe"

    (lineread p)

     

    I hope this is a bit clear to you guys,

    Guillaume

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  •  Same here for "vi", never went past the tutorial :)

     

    I have a seemingly obvious question related to ports in SKILL, when invoking (infile "/tmp/skill-pipe") in the icfb, one usually has to keep the return value in a variable for later usage with reading and writing functions. In the icfb, however, the result of invoking (infile ...) is something like port:"/tmp/skill-pipe". Isn't it possible to use this string as a variable in itself to access the file ? ie:

    (infile "/tmp/skill-pipe") => port:"/tmp/skill-pipe"

    (lineread port:"/tmp/skill-pipe")

    This will fail because clearly it thinks I'm trying to do a range between unbound variable "port" and string "/tmp/skill-pipe".

    In Lisp (but not SKILL it seems), port:"/tmp/skill-pipe" would be something called a READ synthax, which means you could use it as the port itself instead of using a variable holding the value of the port as in:

     p = (infile "/tmp/skill-pipe") => port:"/tmp/skill-pipe"

    (lineread p)

     

    I hope this is a bit clear to you guys,

    Guillaume

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