[WIP] hackish emacs mode for FoxDot

README.md

Installation

1. put foxdot-cli.py in the same directory as the FoxDot installaton (in case you're using virtualenv, otherwise comment from lines 5 to 7)
2. copy foxdot-mode.el to ~/.emacs.d/lisp
3. add (defvar foxdot-cli-path "/path/to/foxdot-cli/") in your ~/.emacs file
4. in Emacs M-x load-library and complete with foxdot-mode
5. Type C-c C-f or M-x foxdot-start to start
6. Type C-c C-e or M-x foxdot-execute to evaluate a line or a block of code

foxdot-cli.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import cmd

BASE_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
ACTIVATE_PY = os.path.join(BASE_PATH, ".env", "bin", "activate_this.py")
execfile(ACTIVATE_PY, dict(__file__=ACTIVATE_PY))

from FoxDot import *

class FoxDotConsole(cmd.Cmd):
    prompt = "FoxDot> "
    intro = "LiveCoding with Python and SuperCollider"

    def default(self, line):
        execute(line)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    FoxDotConsole().cmdloop()

foxdot-mode.el

(defvar foxdot-buffer-name "*FoxDot*")

(defun foxdot-start ()
  (interactive)
  (progn
    (setq
     python-shell-interpreter-args (concat foxdot-cli-path "foxdot-cli.py")
     fd-code-buffer (format (buffer-name))
     )
    (run-python (python-shell-parse-command))
    (python-shell-switch-to-shell)
    (rename-buffer foxdot-buffer-name)
    (switch-to-buffer-other-window fd-code-buffer)
    ))

(defun foxdot-execute(start end)
  (interactive "r")
  (progn
    (setq
     fd-code (buffer-substring-no-properties start end)
     fd-code-buffer (format (buffer-name))
     )
    (append-to-buffer (get-buffer foxdot-buffer-name) start end)
    (switch-to-buffer-other-window (get-buffer foxdot-buffer-name))
    (execute-kbd-macro "\C-m")
    (switch-to-buffer-other-window fd-code-buffer)
    (execute-kbd-macro "\C-g")
    ))

(global-set-key [?\C-c ?\C-e] `foxdot-execute)
(global-set-key [?\C-c ?\C-f] `foxdot-start)

(provide 'foxdot-mode)

you can also

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/your/directory/")
(load 'foxdot-mode)

@rdtor @fdragovic keep in mind this was done many years ago. I'm not really sure this still works. And probably FoxDot provides a proper emacs mode.

@lvm Foxdot does not provide emacs mode (the Foxdot page refers to this link), it is a shame that this modei does not work, it may not be too bad to repair.

@jargenty I'm pretty sure that you can use the "new" --pipe flag in FoxDot to interpret code from STDIN.
Can't say for sure this works bc i do not have FD installed right now, but i'd try replacing line 7 of foxdot-mode.el

<     python-shell-interpreter-args (concat foxdot-cli-path "foxdot-cli.py")
>     python-shell-interpreter-args (concat foxdot-cli-path "python3 -m FoxDot -p -d our-samples-dir") 

so instead of piping the selected code to foxdot-cli.py, it goes directly to FoxDot.
Another nice change could be to store "our samples dir" in a variable in ~/.emacs but that's homework :-)

I am using FoxDot 0.8.8 installed via pip install. Launch procedure:

sclang

in a terminal then

sc3> FoxDot.start

then in another terminall

python -m FoxDot

@lvm, thank you but
What you offer does not work!

@jargenty never said it was going to. i suggested a path that you could follow in order to obtain a solution :-)