RFC open on newLISP documentation

[Lutz]

Thanks Nigel for the doc corrections.



There is a new Tutorial about importing libraries at: http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Compiling_and_Importing_Libraries">http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=C ... _Libraries">http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Compiling_and_Importing_Libraries



Lutz

[newdep]

Hello Lutz,



Just a reminder...



The feature request from sometime ago is not documented.

(It was that i remembered it :-)



Missing is in de manual ->



(command-line nil)



Under linux this will also disable signaling handling display:

user reset - (c)ontinue, e(x)it, (r)eset:

[Lutz]

Thanks Norman, I willl update the documentation



Lutz



ps: you know that 8.2.1 is online?

[newdep]

Hi Lutz,



The Framed manual from 8.2.1 does not allow any "searching" anymore

in de newlisp_index.html..?



Norman.

[Lutz]

... it never did, what do you mean?  But you always can click in the frame and hit Ctrl-F, that still works at least in my Firefox browser. newlisp_index.html did not change except for the new functions added.



If you like to put #function-name into the URL don't use the framed version.



Lutz

[newdep]

Yes i thought it was strange too... Mmm also did not work in my "Links" browser.. Somehow i kicked my machine softly and it oke again... :-) probably the C64 Muzak im running currently via MP3 my machine doesnt like ;-)

[newdep]

Hi lutz,



Minor issue...



Perhpas an enhancement for the folling two function in the manual wil

clarify a little bit more...



file-info



Returns a list of information about the file or directory in str_name. newLISP uses the POSIX system call stat() to get the following information:



-->

Returns a list of information about the file, directory, socket, pipe in str_name. newLISP uses the POSIX system call stat() to get the following information:







file?



Checks for the existence of a file in str-name. Returns true if the file exists and is readable else returns nil.



-->

Checks for the existence of a file, directory, socket, pipe in str-name. Returns true if the file exists and is readable else returns nil.

[Lutz]

- sockets and pipes are numbers, file-info takes only a name.



- on file? I just realize the existence is enough, no permissions seem to be required, and I will change that in the docs



thanks



Lutz

[lwix]

Hi Lutz,



I've sent you an email with an attachment.  There was a fair bit of context which enlarged the file thereby making it too large to post here.



Lucas.

[lwix]

Hi Lutz ,

I got a PM from you to say that the mail might have been dropped.



So here is a link to the tarball.



http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~j_gauss/wix/lucas.tgz">http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~j_gauss/wix/lucas.tgz



 ** since removed -- Lutz now has it **



This was just a first pass over the docs yielding about 80 possible errors/typos.

Reject or accept each as you deem appropriate.



Lucas.

[Lutz]

thanks very much for all the corrections



Lutz

[lwix]

A quick look at the latest manual (8.2.7) indicates that you've fixed the little typos.  Thank you very much -- now I can read without tripping ;-)



But the first typo was hard to pick up: nuevatAc used instead of nuevatEc. It occurs as a hypertext link in the last line of the paragraph that comes just before the "Deprecated Functions" section. (I checked the link just in case the company registered both names :-)



I'll do another quick pass over the manual looking for more typos.

[Lutz]

Thanks for catching nuevatAc.com ... that's a biggy ... and in the 'license' chapter! how could that happen? I need some kind of spelling support in VI, which is my HTML editor, any suggestions?



Lutz

[lwix]

Only a few this time.



  http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~j_gauss/wix/7diff.txt">http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~j_gauss/wix/7diff.txt



some slips may be hard to pick up:  lib|d|emo vs lib|b|emo

and semaphore vs sempahore because lines are the same length.

[lwix]

... I need some kind of spelling support in VI, which is my HTML editor, any suggestions?Lutz

Maybe VI macros that can use [ai]spell on the current buffer?  Or a macro that writes out a tmp file and runs [ai]spell on that and hooks back the result?