A more general emacsy question, for setting up slime.
The info i’m seeing is that .emacs is not the best anymore and instead, on linux to put it here -
M-x config/emacs/init.el
When i do that and restart emacs it doesn’t ‘work’ / know where to look. Previously i had a .emacs in home.
Should i just revert to this or should i uses the config/emacs/init.el? how do i make that work?
Thanks
This is my current workaround for sending an expression or region to an ESP32S3 from Emacs using a serial-term. I split the input into lines and send one line at a time with a delay in between to keep the ESP32’s serial buffer from overflowing. It may be inelegant, but it seems to work. I can send entire long ulisp buffers without hanging the serial port. (Tested with a LilyGo T-deck at 9600 baud. I reckon the delay could be reduced if you increase the baud rate.)
I tried doing a similar thing with an inferior lisp/comint buffer, but that required overriding comint-send-string and comint-send-region (which I tried to do with advice-add), and I ran into problems with weird double-echoing and ^M’s in the screen output, which my casual elisp knowledge has so far proven unable to solve.
;; based on ulisp forum posts by j-keck Nov. 18 in "Emacs for programming"
(defvar ulisp-term-port "/dev/ttyACM0")
(defvar ulisp-term-speed 9600)
;; send a string to the ulisp port.
;; send a line at a time, and delay after each to keep ESP32S3 serial buffer from hanging
(defun ulisp-send-string (s)
(with-current-buffer ulisp-term-port
(end-of-buffer)
(let ((lines (split-string s "\n")))
(dolist (l lines)
(insert l)
(term-send-input)
(sleep-for 0.2)))))
(defun ulisp-eval-last-expression-in-term ()
(interactive)
(let ((expr (buffer-substring-no-properties
(save-excursion (backward-sexp) (point))
(point))))
(ulisp-send-string expr)))
(defun ulisp-eval-region-in-term ()
(interactive)
(let ((expr (buffer-substring-no-properties
(region-beginning)
(region-end))))
(ulisp-send-string expr)))
(defun ulisp-connect-term ()
(interactive)
(split-window-below)
(other-window 1)
(serial-term ulisp-term-port ulisp-term-speed)
(term-line-mode)
(other-window 1))
(defun ulisp-disconnect-term ()
(interactive)
(pop-to-buffer ulisp-term-port)
(delete-window)
(kill-buffer ulisp-term-port))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c e") 'ulisp-eval-last-expression-in-term)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c r") 'ulisp-eval-region-in-term)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") 'ulisp-connect-term)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c d") 'ulisp-disconnect-term)
Putting your initialization code in .emacs in your home directory still works, it’s just not as general. .config/emacs/init.el follows the latest convention for where to put init files. The advantage is that you can have multiple initialization files (to be included by init.el) all kept together in one place. But if all your init code is in one file, .emacs will work just fine.
@dennisd Thanks, your code works well. I really appreciate it as it makes uLisp usable on the Cardputer.
I wonder whether it would be possible to turn off echoing of the expressions when sending them to uLisp. According to the Emacs manual, echoing in the terminal emulator is the responsibility of the subshell.
I added (setq-local comint-process-echoes nil) at the beginning of ulisp-send-string and (setq-local comint-process-echoes t) at the end but the code sent to uLisp is still echoed in the terminal buffer.
@amoroso, the serial-term isn’t a comint buffer (it’s more primitive), so the comint commands won’t do anything. I tried adding delays to the comint code, but I haven’t figured out how to get that working yet.
Per the “; (semicolon)” entry in the Ulisp Language Reference,
A comment line turns off echo, so that by starting a long listing with a comment
it can safely be pasted in to the Arduino IDE's **Serial Monitor** without
overflowing the serial buffer. Echo is turned back on automatically after
a one second delay if there is no activity on the serial input.
So you could try putting a ; line above your code and including it in the region to be sent. But I just tried it and I had weird results in the serial-term, I think because the (insert l) function actually inserts the text into the serial-term buffer, so Emacs may be trying to display it itself every time it receives characters from the ulisp side (as it will for every definition, where ulisp will print out the symbol defined and a prompt). So we may have to live with the echo for now.
Since we don’t yet know how to turn off echo, I tried to at least make the sent code prettier in the terminal rather than spreading it out all over the buffer.
I modified ulisp-send-string to first insert a newline to align the input to the beginning of the line, restore the original newline when sending each line, and terminate the input with a final newline. Sending t is supposed to consume a dummy expression and align the prompt.
I experimented with various alternatives but things don’t improve much.
(defun ulisp-send-string (s)
(with-current-buffer ulisp-term-port
(end-of-buffer)
(insert "t" ?\r ?\n)
(let ((lines (split-string s "\n")))
(dolist (l lines)
(insert l ?\r ?\n)
(term-send-input)
(sleep-for 0.2)))
(insert "t" ?\r ?\n)))
If you replace this line
with
while (!Serial.available()) { delay(1); setflag(NOECHO); }
Then echo should be disabled from boot.
Thanks but I think echo is useful in general, just not when sending expressions over serial.
I’ve been experimenting with the Board options on the Cardputer, and I’ve found that a partial fix is to use TinyUSB as the USB mode.
The usual ESP32-S3 Board settings are:
USB Mode: "Hardware CDC and JTAG"
USB CDC On Boot: "Enabled"
Upload Mode: "UART0 / Hardware CDC"
Instead you should select:
USB Mode: "USB-OTG (TinyUSB)"
USB CDC On Boot: "Enabled"
Upload Mode: "USB-OTG CDC (TinyUSB)"
It then seems possible to upload longer programs via the Serial Monitor without the serial buffer hanging up.
I’ve tested it with the Cardputer using the M5Stack Arduino core version 2.1.2.
I’d be interested in hearing whether this improves the problem for everyone else; if so I’ll update the Cardputer instructions to make these the recommended settings.
On Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon I tested the Cardputer with the the serial settings you suggested and the latest versions of the board and library listed in the Arduino IDE 2.3.7, i.e. M5Stack 3.2.0 and M5Cardputer 1.0.3.
It doesn’t seem to make much of a difference in the lenght of the code I can upload as I still get errors and lockups of the device. For example, from the serial monitor I sent this input:
(defun rotation (width height fun)
(let ((w2 (truncate width 2))
(h2 (truncate height 2))
m n)
(fill-screen)
(dotimes (x w2)
(let ((p (truncate (sqrt (- (* w2 w2) (* x x))))))
(dotimes (v (* 2 p))
(let* ((z (- v p))
(r (/ (sqrt (+ (* x x) (* z z))) w2))
(q (funcall #'fun r))
(y (round (+ (/ z 3) (* q h2))))
(c (rgb (truncate (* r 255)) (truncate (* (- 1 r) 255)) 128)))
(when
(cond
((zerop v) (setq m y) (setq n y))
((> y m) (setq m y))
((< y n) (setq n y))
(t nil))
(draw-pixel (- w2 x) (- h2 y) c)
(draw-pixel (+ w2 x) (- h2 y) c))))))))
and got this error:
23710> (defun rotation (width height fun) (let ((w2 (truncate width 2)) (h2 (truncate height 2)) m n) (fill-screen) (dotimes (x w2) (let ((p (truncate (sqrt (- (* w2 w2) (* x x)))))) (dotimes (v (* 2 p)) (let* ((z (- v p)) (r (/ (sqrt (+ (* x x) (* z z))) w2)) nd (+ (/ z 3) (* q h2)))) (c (rgb (truncate (* r 255)) (truncate (* (- 1 r) 255)) 128))) (when (cond ((zerop v) (setq m y) (setq ny n) (setq n y)) (t nil)) (draw-pixel (- w2 x) (- h2 y) c) (draw-pixel (+ w2 x) (- h2 y) c))))))
rotation
23508> )
Is this still too long for the new serial settings?
My standard test is uploading the infinite precision package: Infinite precision package.
That used to hang up on the ESP32-S3 but works with the change to TinyUSB.
Note that the rotation example you’ve listed doesn’t start with a comment header. See the explanation of why this is important here:
Language reference - semicolon
A comment line turns off echo, so that by starting a long listing with a comment it can safely be pasted in to the Arduino IDE’s Serial Monitor without overflowing the serial buffer. Echo is turned back on automatically after a one second delay if there is no activity on the serial input.
That was the problem: I assumed the new serial settings would handle the longer code by themselves and omitted the comment header. I confirm that adding the header does work and resolves the issue.
Great - I’ll update the Cardputer installation instructions to recommend these settings.