On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Michael Richter <ttmrichter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 September 2012 18:19, Jose F. Morales <jfran(a)clip.dia.fi.upm.es> wrote:
We are aware that we lack many features in Ciao when used directly from a terminal (no Emacs at all). We could implement them if there is enough interest, for example:
- support for readline
- query predicate documentation from the toplevel
- man pages for command-line tools (which is what most users expect).
Well, I can unequivocally say that the interest I had in Ciao as of a few days ago has utterly vanished as a result of hearing that Emacs is, for all practical purposes, required. The only editor I use is ABE. (Anything But Emacs)
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who doesn't use Emacs out there.
Dear Michael,
I heartily appreciate your interest in Ciao and your really interesting criticism. I just want to add some comments to Manuel's answer. We hope that you understand that Ciao is a *large* free and open source project with unfortunately limited resources (we are not Google). We are of course interested in either:
- Including non-Emacs based IDE for the Emacs-Allergic in Ciao. We had some prototype based on Eclipse IDE but it was not ready for distribution.
- Adding Ciao support to other non-Emacs based IDEs for Prolog. For example:
http://prodevtools.sourceforge.net/
Adding at least basic functionality should be trivial.
If any user is interested in contributing to any of those tasks, we will do our best to help him/her.
Best Regards,