How do you do multiple line entry in the command line REPL of SuperCollider? - command-line

Just as the title says, How do you do multiple line entry in the command line REPL of SuperCollider? For example, in Haskell, you use :{ and :} to open and close multiple line entry in ghci.

If you're using sclang with the -i flag (meaning e.g. sclang -i something), the keycode to execute previously entered text is esc, followed by a newline. For example:
~a = {
"test".postln;
}^[
~a.();^[
outputs: test
This works file if you're driving sclang from an IDE or another scripting context (this is used for sclang's unit tests). If you're using the repl, it appears that there ISN'T a way to do multiline entries - the repl uses readline which doesn't have multiline support out of the box. This should probably be filed as a bug.

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How to return to the `re>` prompt to start testing a new pattern when using `pcre2test`?

$ ./pcre2test
PCRE2 version 10.32 2018-09-10
re> /this bar/
data> this bar
0: this bar
When trying to hit ^D or ^C, it just simply exits or when trying different strings, that usually work on other REPLs, get simply interpreted as string literals. (Which makes sense, given the purpose of the library.)
From the pcre2test documentation:
An empty line or the end of the file signals the end of the subject
lines for a test, at which point a new pattern or command line is
expected if there is still input to be read.
That is, simply press enter on the data> prompt.

How to open a file and select/highlight several lines on Sublime from the command line?

I know subl myfile.txt:5 would open “myfile.txt” on line 5. I however want to be able to, from the command line, open a file with say lines 5,9,15 highlighted or selected. I know adding –command should enable me to do that, but how? What would the command be?
There's no built-in command that I know of that can do this, but one can easily create one.
(Technically, it could be done using the bookmarks functionality from the Default package, and the built-in "Expand Selection to Line" functionality. However, experience shows that it would be better and more reliable to write a command in ST specifically for this purpose.)
In ST:
from the Tools menu -> Developer -> New Plugin...
select all and replace with the following
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class SelectSpecificLinesCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit, lines):
self.view.sel().clear()
for line in lines:
position = self.view.text_point(int(line) - 1, 0) # internally, line numbers start from 0
self.view.sel().add(self.view.line(position))
save it, in the folder ST recommends (Packages/User/) as something like select_lines.py (file extension is important).
subl myfile.txt
subl --command "select_specific_lines { \"lines\": [5, 9, 15] }" (this style of escaping the quotes for JSON strings works from the Windows Command Prompt and Linux's Bash)
Why did I specify the command on a separate line / call to subl? Because of these 2 caveats:
ST must already be running, otherwise commands specified on the command line may not get executed, because the plugins haven't loaded yet.
the command could get executed before the file is loaded.
Arguably, point 2 could still happen with multiple invocations of subl, but hopefully it is less likely. There is an open issue on the ST bug tracker for better command line command handling: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1457.

Multiline CoffeeScript REPL in Sublime Text 2

I want to be able to send entire files and selections to the SublimeREPL and eval them, but it doesn't work. CoffeeScript REPL will only read one line at a time.
Coffee will only take single lines, until you use ctrl+v to switch CoffeeScript to multiline (which works in Terminal), but is blocked by sublime's interface... I'd really like to be able to eval more than one line using SublimeREPL's "ctrl+, s", "ctrl+, f" key bindings. There seems to be no direct way to open coffee with multiline mode automatically.
Maybe I'm going about this wrong, but it's only reasonable that I could use multiline JS Object notation in a CoffeeScript file, for example, and then test it in the REPL. I do it in Python and straight up Node all the time.
You need to be able to switch multi-line on then off again, so ideally if I could edit Sublime REPL to run that key shortcut ( ctrl+v ) before and after running a snippet of code that would be the best.
SublimeREPL v2.0.9 will fix your problem using multiline hack in repl.coffee.
[Ctrl+, s] and [ctrl+, f] should work as expected now :)
Release notes: https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL/releases/tag/2.0.9
repl.coffee http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/repl.html#section-2
I made a plugin: https://github.com/billymoon/Sublime-Pipe-Dream/ which aims to do this - and much much more. It needs patching up a bit - so any help appreciated. I use it on my mac with sublime text 2 to pass arbitrary selected text, or whole buffers (not saved files) to shell commands and either display the result in the console, or replace the selected text with the console output.
This is very handy for converting coffee to js, js to coffee, executing js/coffee/sql, beautifying and uglifying code and anything else where you want to pass text through a command line script.

iPython line continuation of command shell string literal

In iPython, when using the command shell command (the exclamation point operator), is there a way to do line continuation of long string literals?
E.g.
t = !echo "Hello"\
"World"
t
produces ['Hello'] as the value for t instead of the expected ['HelloWorld'].
You can use a "cell magic" (which is basically a multi-line version of other magics like !). If you enter %%bash at the command prompt, it will give you a new line with ..., meaning that you should type your command. Press enter again, and you get another ..., until you just hit enter twice in a row, and it runs your commands. For example, you can type just the following.
%%bash --out t
echo "Hello "\
"World"
(and hit enter twice at the end). It works as expected. In particular, note the --out t, which stores the standard output in the variable t. If you evaluate that now, you get 'Hello World\n'. You can also get the standard error output with --err, as described nicely on this page.
In the ipython notebook, you just put the whole thing in one cell and evaluate it all together. (If you haven't tried the notebook, I highly recommend it.)

How can I script vim to run perltidy on a buffer?

At my current job, we have coding-style standards that are different from the ones I normally follow. Fortunately, we have a canned RC file for perltidy that I can apply to reformat files before I submit them to our review process.
I have code for emacs that I use to run a command over a buffer and replace the buffer with the output, which I have adapted for this. But I sometimes alternate between emacs and vim, and would like to have the same capabilities there. I'm sure that this or something similar is simple and had been done and re-done many times over. But I've not had much luck finding any examples of vim-script that seem to do what I need. Which is, in essence, to be able to hit a key combo (like Ctrl-F6, what I use in emacs) and have the buffer be reformatted in-place by perltidy. While I'm a comfortable vim-user, I'm completely clueless at writing this sort of thing for vim.
After trying #hobbs answer I noticed that when filtering the entire buffer through perltidy the cursor returned to byte 1, and I had to make a mental note of the original line number so I could go back after :Tidy completed.
So building on #hobbs' and #Ignacio's answers, I added the following to my .vimrc:
"define :Tidy command to run perltidy on visual selection || entire buffer"
command -range=% -nargs=* Tidy <line1>,<line2>!perltidy
"run :Tidy on entire buffer and return cursor to (approximate) original position"
fun DoTidy()
let l = line(".")
let c = col(".")
:Tidy
call cursor(l, c)
endfun
"shortcut for normal mode to run on entire buffer then return to current line"
au Filetype perl nmap <F2> :call DoTidy()<CR>
"shortcut for visual mode to run on the current visual selection"
au Filetype perl vmap <F2> :Tidy<CR>
(closing " added to comments for SO syntax highlighting purposes (not required, but valid vim syntax))
DoTidy() will return the cursor to its original position plus or minus at most X bytes, where X is the number of bytes added/removed by perltidy relative to the original cursor position. But this is fairly trivial as long as you keep things tidy :).
[Vim version: 7.2]
EDIT: Updated DoTidy() to incorporate #mikew's comment for readability and for compatibility with Vim 7.0
My tidy command:
command -range=% -nargs=* Tidy <line1>,<line2>!
\perltidy (your default options go here) <args>
If you use a visual selection or provide a range then it will tidy the selected range, otherwise it will use the whole file. You can put a set of default options (if you have any) at the point where I wrote (your default options go here), but any arguments that you provide to :Tidy will be appended to the perltidy commandline, overriding your defaults. (If you use a .perltidyrc you might not have default args -- that's fine -- but then again you might want to have a default like --profile=vim that sets up defaults only for when you're working in vim. Whatever works.)
The command to filter the entire buffer through an external program is:
:%!command
Put the following in ~/.vimrc to bind it to Ctrl-F6 in normal mode:
:nmap <C-F6> :%!command<CR>
For added fun:
:au Filetype perl nmap <C-F6> :%!command<CR>
This will only map the filter if editing a Perl file.
Taking hobbs' answer a step further, you can map that command to a shortcut key:
command -range=% -nargs=* Tidy <line1>,<line2>!perltidy -q
noremap <C-F6> :Tidy<CR>
And another step further: Only map the command when you're in a Perl buffer (since you probably wouldn't want to run perltidy on any other language):
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.pl,*.plx,*.pm command! -range=% -nargs=* Tidy <line1>,<line2>!perltidy -q
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.pl,*.plx,*.pm noremap <C-F6> :Tidy<CR>
Now you can press Ctrl-F6 without an active selection to format the whole file, or with an active selection to format just that section.
Instead of creating a new keyboard shortcut, how about replacing the meaning of the = command which is already in people's finger memory for indenting stuff? Yes, perlcritic does more than just indent but when you use perlcritic anyways, then you probably don't want to go back to the inferior "just indent" = command. So lets overwrite it!
filetype plugin indent on
autocmd FileType perl setlocal equalprg=perltidy
And now we can use = just like before but with the added functionality of perlcritic that goes beyond just indenting lines:
== run perlcritic on the current line
5== run perlcritic on five lines
=i{ Re-indent the 'inner block', i.e. the contents of the block
=a{ Re-indent 'a block', i.e. block and containing braces
=2a{ Re-indent '2 blocks', i.e. this block and containing block
gg=G run perlcritic on the entire buffer
And the best part is, that you don't have to learn any new shortcuts but can continue using the ones you already used with more power. :)
I'm used to select text using line oriented visual Shift+V and then I press : an I have !perltidy -pbp -et4 somewhere in history so I hit once or more up arrow ⇧.