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2 points by shader 5674 days ago | link | parent

I've been using a setup for running the arc server that allows me to connect to an already running arc service. I have a shell/mzscheme file that launch the arc server, and in a separate thread runs the repl parameterized to read and write on two pipes. Then I have another shell program that just reads from the one pipe, and writes to the other. Finally, I rlwrap that, and I'm connected to the arc repl just as if I had run it normally from the command line.

It's great for making a server that can be launched by cron or initd, and still be able to connect to it. You could alternatively use a socket based system, or disable the close-on-eof, and then you wouldn't have to worry about quitting your server when you disconnect. Though, odds are you aren't going to be worrying about that anyway, as you're only using it for an ide.

I can show you a copy of the file, if you want ;)



1 point by tokipin 5671 days ago | link

thanks. i'm on Windows though and slightly fascist and unreasonable in that i'm not particularly worried about the program working on another platform. i should have mentioned that though. (also i think if anyone needs a noob-oriented IDE, it's going to be Windows users)

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2 points by shader 5671 days ago | link

The same system should work for windows. Windows does support named pipes, and you don't have to use unix shell code to launch the arc process, since you're writing another program anyway.

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1 point by shader 5671 days ago | link

Yeah, everyone else uses emacs, vim, or textmate.

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1 point by rntz 5671 days ago | link

Emacs runs on windows.

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1 point by shader 5671 days ago | link

Yes, but anyone running Windows is much less likely to use emacs or vim over some gui ide. Linux users are much more likely to be willing to learn those two.

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1 point by eds 5674 days ago | link

Have you looked at GNU Screen (http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)?

It does most of what you describe (connecting/disconnecting from a running Arc repl). I don't know if you can use it to save cron jobs, but that's not something I typically need to do.

It doesn't, however, solve the IDE problem.

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1 point by shader 5674 days ago | link

Yes, I use screen very heavily, and I do use it to leave an arc process running, and connect to it again later.

But it can't connect to an arc repl that was executed by a non-interactive shell, such as via cron or initd. That's what I use the pipe system for, and a similar system could easily be used by an ide to communicate with arc and not create a visible shell window.

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