Split gnu-apl-input-mode.el for use with other interpreters ?

[EmmanuelCharpentier]

Dear Elias,

The APL-Z input method is exceedingly useful to APL users whose keyboard des not have (and cannot have) a Super key (case in point : my laptop ;-)). But it is currently wed to gnu-apl-mode, hence the Gnu APL interpreter.

I just tested that, in a fresh emacs session, (load "~/.emacs.d/elpa/gnu-apl-mode-20220404.341/gnu-apl-input.el") is enough to be able to successfully start the APL-Z input mode in a fresh emacs-jupyter REPL running a Dyalog APL kernel.

This suggests that gnu-apl-input.el (with its companion file gnu-apl-symbols.el and possibly the relevant part of gnu-apl-documentation providing gnu-apl-show-keyboard) could be split off in a package (say, gnu-apl-input-mode) that gnu-apl-mode could require, but that could be used by the users of ofther interpreters. (Case in point : emacs-jupyter allows org-mode users to instert "live" source blocks ; which was my point actually...).

What do you think ?

[lokedhs]

That could certainly be an option, and I'm not against the idea. Ill be happy to merge support for this if proposed.

[EmmanuelCharpentier]

Okay. I'll fork your repo and have a look at this.

Don't hold your breath : I never created a melpa-ready package, and may have a couple of false starts...

[EmmanuelCharpentier]

Put on the back burner : there seems to be two currently active APL implementations (Dyalog an Gnu APL), and Dyalog seems to have drifted to a different set of tools (RIDE protocol, langiage extensions that make it "something different with an APL expression syntax, etc...)

I'll concentrate first in Gnu APL.