Re: SWI-Prolog MacOS app

H Jan, great news for me as a MAC user. If you need some beta testing please let me know.

Kind regards

Lyn

Am 19.08.2013 um 11:26 schrieb Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]>:

> On 08/19/2013 12:10 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>> One thing I like about the R GUI is that if you do
>> 	% open <<directory>> -a R
>> it starts up with <<directory>> as its current directory.
> 
> That should be easy and makes a lot of sense (mostly for defining
> a shell alias, I guess).  It touches my old wish to change the
> commandline handling to take additional parameters as files without
> using options (-s or -l) now.   Now, the Windows version already
> has the hack to accept a single Prolog file as argument.  Maybe
> we should allow for (after processing - and -- args)
> 
> 	[dir] [file1.ext [file2.ext] ...]
> 
> where ext is a known Prolog extension for file-names (this is
> configurable)
> 
>> As for opening from Applications (and I most earnestly hope that
>> you mean ~/Applications), I would expect the program to save
> 
> The SWI-Prolog.app is fully relocatable.  You can install it wherever
> you want or just run it from the .dmg file.
> 
>> portions of its state in ~/Library/SWIProlog/  (so that
>> File|Recent works).  So it doesn't much matter where it starts
>> the first time you run it, as long as the second time it picks
>> up where it left off.
> 
> Ok.  Asked Carlo to see whether we can get access to the OS
> specific preference store from Prolog through Qt.
> 
>> Starting a new instance would I think come as a surprise to most
>> Mac users.  I have a several programming language implementations
>> on my Mac, and none of them start a new instance when you open a
>> second file.  They all just open a new editing window (or tab).
> 
> Ok.  Will change that to open the editor or, maybe as Paulo suggested
> to have an option.
> 
>> As for file extensions, it's a matter of Cmd-I and a few clicks
>> to associate either a single file or all instances of an
>> extensions with the application of your choice, so I wouldn't
>> worry about making the perfect extension list.  (I have no idea
>> why '.pl' files default to TextWrangler on my machine.)
> 
> Great.  I already had the impression this is not such as big issue
> as in Windows.
> 
> 	Cheers --- Jan
> 
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