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Yorick Release Notes
These are generic release notes for yorick-1.6. You can browse the
complete online documentation for yorick by clicking Home in the
navigation bar to the left.
The most frequent yorick feature request is command line recall. I
urge you to run yorick under emacs, which provides a powerful
development environment, in addition to command line recall and
editing. Even if you do not use emacs for any other purpose, it is
worth using it to run yorick. To do this, add the line
(load "/usr/gapps/yorick/yorick" t t)
to the file ~/.emacs (creating the file if you don't have one). You
can then start emacs and type M-x yorick RET (M-x means holding down
the meta key - either Alt or Windows on most keyboards) to start
yorick. Alternatively, you can start emacs using this shell command
line, if you do not want to bother with ~/.emacs:
emacs -l /path/to/yorick-1.6-02/yorick -f yorick &
(Replace "/path/to/yorick-1.6-02" by the actual location of the
directory containing yorick.el on your system.) You can type in the
resulting window as if it were a terminal, except that the up and down
arrows recall previous lines for you to edit and resend.
To do a fairly comprehensive test of yorick, start it and type:
#include "testfull.i"
in response to the > prompt. You can also run, read, and study the
five demo files, demo1.i through demo5.i. For example,
#include "demo1.i"
demo1 // run the demo (don't type the // and comment)
help,demo1
At the end of the help message is a file and line number. If you
are running yorick under emacs, type ESC ? to open an editing window
positioned on that line.
The gist program is a binary CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) browser.
If you do not know what that means, you do not want to use it. Even
if you do know what that means, you are probably making a mistake to
use CGM files.
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