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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Interacting with Common Lisp in an X window
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Date: 28 Jul 88 16:39:57 GMT
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In article <8807280502.AA01988@juicy-juice.lcs.mit.edu> ilham@juicy-juice.lcs.mit.edu writes:
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>I wish to write a software which uses both X Windows (in C language) and
>Common Lisp. The core part of the program is written in Common-Lisp and
>the windowing interface will be written in X using C.

Do you know about CLX, the Common Lisp interface to X?  It provides
facilities at the same level as Xlib.  CLX is included in the X11R2
distribution.  Unfortunately, it isn't well documented.

>In this case, I should be able to type Lisp command in window no. (3)
>and the underlying Common-lisp should interpret that as input and
>execute that lisp code.

This could be done by making window (3) be an xterm window running
lisp instead of a shell.  Xterm takes an argument, -e, that lets you
specify a command to run with its I/O directed to the window that is
created.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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