Does this lay the groundwork towards a Linux Terminal "(SQ)REPL" interface to a headless VM?

Should this be the place to start such a project?

thx.

tty


---- On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:40:17 -0400 marcel.taeumel<Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de> wrote ---- 

<http://forum.world.st/file/n4905883/squeak-shell-2.gif> 
 
See SqshCommandLine >> #editText to understand extension points (shortcuts) 
inthe command line and how to run custom applications (i.e. subclasses of 
SqshController). 
 
Best, 
Marcel 
 
 
David T. Lewis wrote 
> This is a really nice demonstration of how Projects work in Squeak. It 
> is completely different from either Morphic or MVC, and the removal of 
> the traditional GUI makes it clear that Projects are not directly tied 
> to any one mode of user interaction. 
> 
> The shell itself has an interesting conceptual model. We usually think 
> of a "shell" or "console window" that navigates around file systems, 
> such that where you are in the shell is based on a current working 
> directory in a file system. But in SqueakShell we are navigating in 
> the object space. 
> 
> And of course the text-mode Squeaky the Mouse logo makes for a compelling 
> user experience :-) 
> 
> I would encourage everyone to try loading this and playing around with 
> SqueakShell. 
> 
> Dave 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 07:17:26AM -0700, marcel.taeumel wrote: 
>> Hi, there! 
>> 
>> I am happy to announce a new kind of project for Squeak: "The Squeak 
>> Shell". 
>> :-) 
>> 
>> You can install it into any trunk image via: 
>> 
>> Installer swa 
>> project: 'SqueakShell'; 
>> install: 'SqueakShell'. 
>> 
>> Then you will find a new kind of project under Projects -> New Project 
>> ... 
>> 
>> The Squeak Shell is independent from Morphic and MVC. It's architecture 
>> is, 
>> partially, a mixture of both. :-D I wanted to keep it as simple as 
>> possible 
>> while avoiding global state as much as possible. 
>> 
>> My goal is to add it to trunk to simplify modularization of MVC and 
>> Morphic. 
>> For example, we have to extract UserInputEvent and Canvas from Morphic 
>> into 
>> the base system. These would form a splendid addition to other projects 
>> because object-oriented event processing and displaying is not something 
>> that only Morphic should have. 
>> 
>> The Squeak Shell helped me refactor Squeak's project mechanism. It also 
>> revealed potential improvements for our Debugger, which I am going to 
>> address later this year. One goal is to make Squeak more robust and 
>> mitigate 
>> the risk of getting locked out of the system. 
>> 
>> Here is the interesting part: It can be used to recover from 
>> serious/recursive errors in Morphic and MVC. When you open a new Morphic 
>> project from within a Squeak Shell project, the shell will appear then. 
>> Only 
>> recursive errors in the shell will then start our traditional emergency 
>> evaluator. 
>> 
>> Some figures: 12 classes, 274 methods, 1454 LOC. 
>> 
>> You can open the Squeak Shell on top of the Morphic loop ("SqueakShell 
>> open") or as custom process inside the Morphic project ("SqueakShell 
>> openConcurrent"). You enter a SqueakShell project via: "SqueakShell 
>> openAsProject". 
>> 
>> The core of the Squeak Shell covers only 6 classes (see 
>> "SqueakShell-Core"). 
>> There are already two applications in this project: (1) a command line 
>> and 
>> (2) a text editor (see "SqueakShell-Tools"). 
>> 
>> You can use the Squeak Shell to explore all our tool extension points, 
>> which 
>> we use for browsing classes, inspecting objects, debugging unhandled 
>> errors 
>> in processes, etc. For this, take a look at SqshProject, SqshToolSet, and 
>> SqshUIManager. 
>> 
>> I am sure that there can be an even smaller kind of project. However, I 
>> am 
>> not so sure about the usefulness of such a project. :-) 
>> 
>> <http://forum.world.st/file/n4905613/shell.png> 
>> 
>> Have fun! 
>> Marcel 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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