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
Many thanks - that did the trick for running the listener window.
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?
Bill
-----Original Message----- From: owner-ciao-users(a)clip.dia.fi.upm.es [mailto:owner-ciao-users(a)clip.dia.fi.upm.es]On Behalf Of Larner, Dan <larner(a)parc.xerox.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:51 AM To: 'winder(a)interchange.ubc.ca'; Ciao Users Subject: RE: emacs: top level processor
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 errorI'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
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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Larner, Dan <larner＠parc.xerox.com> -
Manuel Hermenegildo -
William Winder