[GAP Forum] Front end for GAP

[Yevgen Muntyan]

Ivan Andrus wrote:

> I use Fink <http://fink.sourceforge.net/> and Fink Commander 
> <http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/> to install lots of UNIX 
> applications almost painlessly.  Fink is based on Debian's package 
> manager and is quite nice.  I can't remember if you need administrator 
> privileges or not though, so it may not be an option.

Thanks, I'll try.

> I tried the new version (which claims to be 0.5.2 even though the tar 
> file claimed to be 0.5.1).  

Are you sure? It's really surprising. I checked and grepped the source, 
seems to
be 0.5.1. Not that it's very important, but..

> I get the same behavior, but this time I got some error messages 
> printed to the console which may be of some use.  I have included them 
> at the bottom of this email in hopes that they will help.

This is really weird; in short, it should not be happening. I will try 
to build and
test it on OS X.
At the moment, you can write rc file yourself, I put example in the end 
of letter.
Copy/paste it and save to ~/.ggaprc file.

> I see.  So the first time I run ggap, it doesn't know where to find GAP?

No, it doesn't. It tries to run 'gap', and that's all.

> Actually not much.  I've never used it.  I can download a client and 
> give it a try if you would prefer that.  I've been meaning to for a 
> while.

Yes, it would be really good. IRC is a chat, it's real time, so it's 
faster and more
convenient.

------ This is my rc file (except gap command :). Copy after this line 
to the end -------
gap::command=gap -blah
editor::dialogs::open=/home/muntyan/Projects/ggap/src
editor::show_line_numbers=FALSE
editor::show_right_margin=FALSE
editor::tabs_width=5
editor::use_syntax_highlighting=TRUE
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/Copy=<Control>c
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/CopyLastOutput=<Shift><Control>c
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/NewEditor=<Control>n
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/OpenInEditor=<Control>o
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/Paste=<Control>v
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/Preferences=<Control>p
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/Quit=<Control>q
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/Restart=<Control>r
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/SaveSelection=<Control>s
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/SelectAll=<Control>a
shortcuts::GGAPWindow/ShowConsole=<Control>l