Re: read in code verbatim

Very good... thanks, John and Dave.

And I agree about moving oft-used bits of code into functions...



Quoting John Houck <houck_at_email.domain.hidden
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:12 -0500, rgibson_at_email.domain.hidden>> I'm often debugging and have to repetitively cut/paste large amounts of code
>> onto the ISIS command line.  Is there a simple way to do this?
>
> In general, I would recommend looking for ways to turn
> often-used bits of code into functions that take generic
> arguments.  Those functions can then be loaded at startup by
> your $HOME/.isisrc file or perhaps loaded on-demand through the
> "autoload" feature.
>
>> What I want is to have a text file with my "Lotsa code" and tell ISIS to
>> execute that text file just as if I had pasted it to the command line.
>>
>
> I think the ".source" command does what you want:
>
> .source
>
> SYNOPSIS
>    read slang commands from a file
>
> USAGE
>    .source filename
>
> DESCRIPTION
>    This function is very similar to the .load shortcut except that
>    lines from the file are interpreted as though they had been
>    typed at the command line -- all command shortcuts are
>    available and variables need not be declared before use.
>
> SEE ALSO
>    .load, evalfile
>
>
> Thanks,
> -John
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