medley

This repo is for the overall Lisp environment for Medley Interlisp.

A sub-project is Interlisp/maiko which is the implementation of the Lisp virtual machine. If you want to run on some other platform that we haven't tried, you just need to port/build Maiko.

We're still in the process of sorting out what we have and ensuring we start with a solid base.

Running Medley on all platforms with Docker

If this is your first time working with Docker, you'll want to install it before continuing. You'll also need a modern VNC client; TightVNC works well.

Next, you can either pull a prebuilt image or build from scratch:

Using a prebuilt image (recommended)

$ docker run -p 5900:5900 interlisp/medley
Run a VNC viewer and connect to localhost.

Building from scratch

Pull the latest Medley repo.
$ cd medley
Pull Maiko: $ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ docker build . -t interlisp/medley
And then as above.

Running Medley on macOS

Download and install XQuartz. MacPorts has the most recent builds.
Clone this repo and Interlisp/maiko into the same parent directory.
In a terminal:

cd maiko/bin
./makeright x

cd ../../medley
./run-medley --dimensions 1440x800 -full &

Middle-mouse tweak

if you don't have a 3-button mouse (wheel = middle mouse) you can enable FN-left to be middle. Run in a terminal:

defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 enable_fake_buttons -boolean true
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 fake_button2 fn
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 fake_button3 none

To turn the settings back to the original default values do:

defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 enable_fake_buttons -boolean false
defaults delete org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 fake_button2
defaults delete org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 fake_button3

Running Medley on Windows with WSL

Get the Windows X server called Xming (the default options will do).

Make Maiko following the instructions in that repo, and copy lde and ldex from linux.x86_64 into your path (/usr/local/bin).

export MEDLEYDIR=/mnt/c/path-to-medley-directory
export HOME=/mnt/c/path-to-windows-home
export DISPLAY=:0
export LDEINIT="$MEDLEYDIR"/greetfiles/LOCAL-INIT

cd "$MEDLEYDIR"

IP=1.2.3.4  # your Windows machine's local IP
./run-medley --dimensions 1440x800 --display "$IP":0 -bw 0 -full &

Naming conventions and directory structure

File Names and Extensions: Most Interlisp source file names are UPPERCASE and Interlisp didn't use file extensions for its source files. (note that any .TEDIT or .TXT file is probably documentation for the package of same name, at least in the library, internal/library, lispusers)

The current repo has both Lisp sources and compiled .LCOM and .DFASL files, because some files don't compile in a vanilla lisp.sysout .

Each directory should have a README.md, but briefly

basics -- old sysouts needed (for now) for rebuilding new sysouts
docs -- Documentation files (either PDFs or online help)
fonts -- raster fonts (or font widths) in various resolutions for display, postscript, interpress, press formats
greetfiles -- should have any necessary setup of directories Lisp should look in for load
internal -- These were internal to Venue
library -- packages that were supported (30 years ago)
lispusers -- packages that were only half supported (ditto)
loadups -- has sysouts and other builds
makesysout -- files for making new sysouts for various configurations, based on basics
patches -- ""
sunloadup -- support information for making a new lisp.sysout from scratch
sources -- sources for Interlisp and Common Lisp implementations
unicode -- data files for support of XCCS to and from Unicode mappings

plus Dockerfile, and scripts for building and running medley

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