Re: Ngspice and Readline, was Re: gEDA-user: netlist simulation

[sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson)]

Thanks for the pointer.  Actually, tclspice is just a package which
exports ngspice's cli command set to TCL -- which is a very cool
thing 'cause it allows you to write optimization scripts for complex
designs!  As such, tclspice is a superset of ngspice; most of tclspice
is written in C.  And ngspice itself (and it's CLI) remains mired in
the buggy-pointer morass of C.  Therefore, one needs to integrate the
C based version of readline.
  
Just being pedantic . . . .

Stuart


> 
> Hi guys - 
> 
> Have you looked at a package called 'tclreadline'? (check sourceforge).
> It integrates readline with TCL to provide command history and editing
> as well
> as a support for custom command completers.
> I have used tclreadline for awhile on an embedded software project and
> it works great.
> 
> Keith
> 
> Keith Outwater
> Sr. Staff Engineer
> Microvision, Inc.
> 19910 N. Creek Parkway
> Bothell, WA 98011
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Brorson [mailto:sdb@cloud9.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:27 AM
> > To: geda-user@seul.org
> > Subject: Re: Ngspice and Readline, was Re: gEDA-user: netlist 
> > simulation
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Terry,
> > 
> > > Does the cli version of tclspice  support command history 
> > i.e. readline at this time ?
> > 
> > No, it unfortunately doesn't.  I've thought about fixing it, but
> > haven't done it.  I am not an expert programmer, and it takes me time
> > to come up to speed on each project I take on.  My time is limited and
> > other projects seemed like they were higher priority. 
> > 
> > > I've been using a older version of ngspice with the 
> > readline patch as I find it much more convienient. 
> > 
> > Do you have a pointer to your version?  Perhaps I could do a diff
> > against the current tclspice and stick the patch in.  THat would save
> > some programming time & headache. . . .
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Stuart
> > 
> 
>