Ciao-users January 2001

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Re:emacs:top level processor
by Luciano Garcia 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

My problem is similar to others: I don't get a ciao prompt when I call = ciao top-level-processor from Emacs in Widows98 and is useless to write = queries, you dont get answers. Worse when you exit emacs there is not = real killing of the process (You can see ciao engine still active in the = task manager).=20 What's wrong. Any suggestion? Thanks Luciano Garcia

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Re: emacs: top level processor
by William Winder 23 Jan '01

23 Jan '01

The only problem I seem to be having is the interaction of emacs with ciao; all the emacs functions work (such as storing queries). On the other hand I don't get a ciao prompt and a query in the emacs listener window does not make it to ciao, nor is ciao able to get the response back to emacs. All the path info seems to be accurate; ciao does start as a process under emacs (though when I exit emacs, emacs does not seem to stop the process. I have a work-around for that.) I'm not sure how to debug the problem, so I thought I would compare the ciao prolog.el and another prolog.el at http://www.freesoft.cz/software/emacs/prolog-mode/. for SWI. This brings me to a few questions: 1. Is there any way to know if ciao is sending a prompt to emacs ? (In other words, can I watch that interaction?) 2. Is the ciao prolog.el related to the Emil-Åström-SWI prolog.el (see above)? Does the latter work with ciao? 3. When I run the preprocessor, ciaopp, the error message is "no such file", and indeed only ciaopp.pl is installed in .../library. Does the preprocessor use a cioapp.cpx or something else? I'm assuming that it should be something other than ciaopp.pl. (Like ciaopp.po or ciaopp.cpx.. and even in the /shell subdirectory.) Thanks, Bill Winder (Note: in the navigator doc the same error appears as in the info doc: @xref{Troubleshooting (nasty messages and nifty workarounds)} ) > > I still can't make the listener window listen; i.e when I > "call query" under > > "query and main file" the query is written to the listener > window and then > > nothing. (I have been trying to run the hello world program). > My guess is > > that I'm not launching the query properly. Does the listener > window listen? > > A couple of quick observations here: > > - The most typical way in which people send queries to the top-level > is by typing them directly in the listener window (which does > 'listen'!). > > - The facility of storing a query and sending it to the top-level (the > 'listener') is most useful when a query needs to be issued over and > over again. People seem to take advantage of this mostly while using > the source-level debugger. > > In any case, recall that in emacs typing M-p ('escape' followed by 'p' > or 'Meta' and 'p' simultaneously) in the Listener window recalls the > previous query automatically. >

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IMPORTANT: The list ciao-users is now "moderated"
by A. German Puebla Sanchez 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

Dear All, Due to the high traffic of irrelevant messages being sent lately to the list ciao-users, the list is now moderated. This means that messages sent to the list ciao-users will only be actually sent to everyone in the list if someone in the Ciao development Team approves it. Thus, most of irrelevant messages will be filtered out. We hope this change in policy will greatly improve the quality of the information received from the list. Best Regards, The Ciao Team -- ============================================================= | German Puebla | Facultad de Informatica | | german(a)fi.upm.es | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | | Phone +34-91-336-7449 | http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~german | =============================================================

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RE: emacs: top level processor
by Larner, Dan <larner＠parc.xerox.com> 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

I had the same problem. In my case it was due to the use of backslashes in the DOTemaces.el file in the Ciao Directory. All instances of say e:\ need to be changed to e:/ For example: "E:\prolog/ciao-1.7p30Win32/shell/ciaosh.bat" should be changed to "E:/prolog/ciao-1.7p30Win32/shell/ciaosh.bat" -- Dan -----Original Message----- From: William Winder [mailto:winder(a)interchange.ubc.ca] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:26 AM To: Ciao Users Subject: emacs: top level processor I seem to be having a problem running ciao from emacs. (Installation seems correct: I do have the Info reader files, syntax coloring, and prolog mode menus.) I know very little about emacs, so it could be something simple, like making sure emacs knows wherer ciao is. In short, I am not able to do the following: * Loading the file using the `Ciao/Prolog' menu (or typing <^C> <l>) should start in another emacs buffer the Ciao toplevel shell and load the file. You should now be able to switch the the toplevel shell and make queries from within `emacs'. Here is the error message: Spawning child process: exec format error I'm using ciao under Win95 (ciao version 20.7). One complication of my system is that it is installed on a Zip drive D:, and the .emacs file seems to have to be on C: root. I doubt if that is important, though it did take a while to figure out why emacs was not reading the .emacs file. Any suggestions or samples for tracking down the problem? Bill Winder

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Longitud de los Strings
by Murcy 18 Jan '01

18 Jan '01

Hola, me gustaría preguntaros por la longitud máxima de un String para Ciao, ya que con uno de 1834 caracteres me está dando problemas. Un saludo. -- ======================================================================= David Teruel Vioque Intelligent Systems Research Group (ISYS) Facultad de Informatica Universidad Politecnica de Madrid dteruel(a)isys.dia.fi.upm.es =======================================================================

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