Re: Customizing spread sheet apps.

Please excuse possibly an ignorant question. Will this work on windows? And
what about Mac?

Thanks,
Iain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stéphane Rollandin" <lecteur-JzcQqk2NLvvfG2/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: [CsndTek] Customizing spread sheet apps.


> At 12:36 16/10/2003, you wrote:
> > > Csound-X for Emacs has this and much more (matrices in score, full
math
> > > package, algorithmic composition embedded within csd documents, direct
> > > access to csound, etc..):
> > >
> > > http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/csoundx.html
> > >
> > > ... you just have to like Emacs :)
> >
> >Please excuse my ignorance of Emacs  . . . so does that mean that one
could
> >use it as a spreadsheet where you select a certain region and then run a
> >user scripted function on all material in that region? Say for instance,
I
> >select a column and then run 'Iain's diatonic transposition function'?
And
> >if so, what language(s) would I have to write these function in?
>
>
> Emacs is a text editor written in Emacs Lisp (Elisp), a variant of Lisp.
> This is an interpreted language. Only the core of its primitive functions
> is written in C, which means that you can actually extend (or arbitrarily
> change the behaviour of) Emacs directly from within itself by writing
Elisp
> code. Changes apply on-the-fly, there is no compilation step (only an
> optional byte-compilation provided for performance reasons), and no need
to
> exit or restart the editor.
>
> So, to take your example, in Csound-X you can indeed select a column (or
> even a matrix, that is a rectangular selection encompassing several
columns
> along a number of lines), and apply any operation you want, interactively,
> through Elisp code.
>
> That code can either be supplied directly at the prompt, or be coded in a
> file which you load either interactively or at start-up (that file would
> define a function called iain-s-diatonic-transposition, for example).
Also,
> if you intend to use if often you can have it included in a custom menu,
so
> that your code is only a mouse click away.
>
> All of this is documented on my web pages, and in the package.
>
> Now, learning Elisp is not trivial. Personaly I don't think it is any more
> difficult than another language, but some people feel uncomfortable with
> Lisp concepts. And Emacs has it own concepts layered on top of this. But
> the learning work is worth it, as you have an infinitely extendable editor
> at hand.
>
> When developing Csound-X I looked at all the editors for Csound I could
> find (CsEdit, etc.) and stole from them the features I found nice :) Plus
I
> made my own... if you want some more stuff, just ask for it !
>
> Good luck with Emacs if you want to jump in. It certainly won't be smooth
> and easy, but after all you managed Csound: if you can do that, you can
> handle Emacs :)
>
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Stef
>
>
>
>
>
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