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1. Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by Kirkkaf13 Jul 14, 2013
• 2146 views

Hello everyone,

I have just recently moved to Linux and thought I might try out Euphoria as I have heard good things about it.

As I am a complete beginner with using Linux (Lubuntu) I just need some guidance on getting started with Euphoria, I read through some of the documentation and managed to install the 64bit .deb file but I am not sure where to go from here, how do I load up the IDE, save and execute a program?

Thank you in advanced.

EDITED: After reading further documentation I have found out about the ed text editor that can be ran from the terminal.

3. Re: Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by jaygade Jul 14, 2013
• 2100 views

"ed" for Euphoria probably should be renamed. However it is a pretty simple program, and a good example program.

If Euphoria is installed in /usr then you should be able to run "eui /usr/share/euphoria/bin/ed.ex". (That's how it is on my Linux box.)

5. Re: Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by Kirkkaf13 Jul 14, 2013
• 2056 views

Hi Jaygade,

Thank you this was very helpful and I am not able to run ed.ex. The editor is nice and simple to use. Is there anyway I can create a shortcut to open it?

Hi Matt,

Thank you for your response I will definitely take a good at this IDE when I become more familiar with Euphoria.

7. Re: Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by _tom (admin) Jul 15, 2013
• 1987 views

Here is how I make ed.ex useful.

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For nostalgic reasons, the "official" Euphoria editor is ed.ex . Consider ed.ex to be a demo program that shows you how a code editor works. It is handy for quick editing and launching demo programs.

Many Linux distributions have a line editor named "ed" installed by default. Use these steps to make ed.ex the default editor:

Tested on Mint Linux.

• install Euphoria
• compile ed.ex
  • make a temporary directory in your home directory
    for example: /home/mint/oEu_temp
  • copy ed.ex from /user/share/euphoria/bin to the temp directory
  • open a terminal in oEu_temp; at the prompt type:
    euc ed.ex
  • after some activity you will get a compiled editor named ed
    test the editor by typing ./ed hello.ex
• copy the compiled Euphoria ed to /bin
  • open your filemanager as root
    (you will need your use password for this)
  • copy ed to /bin
• run ed
  • open a terminal
  • at the prompt type ed hello.ex

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Is there any downside to this approach? I intend to add this suggestion to the documentation.

Tom

9. Re: Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by mattlewis (admin) Jul 15, 2013
• 1987 views

/usr/local/bin is more appropriate.

Matt

11. Re: Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by K_D_R Jul 15, 2013
• 2018 views

I think that installing euphoria in the root file system is a huge pain in the neck. I recommend installing euphoria directly into user space using the generic tar/gz package: euphoria-4.0.5

Under Ubuntu 13.04, my .profile ends with the euphoria assignments:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists 
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then  
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"  
fi 
    PATH="$HOME/euphoria/bin:$PATH" 
    # PATH="$/usr/bin:$PATH" 
    EUDIR="$HOME/euphoria" 
    EUINC="$HOME/euphoria/include" 
    export PATH EUDIR EUINC 

Indeed, the only advantage I see to installing Euphoria into the root system in the traditional "Debian" manner would be if such a euphoria package was made available part in parcel with a Linux distribution like ruby, python, lua, etc.

For what it is worth I have not been able to get WxEuphoria to work under Ubuntu 13.04.

Using ed.ex, you will probably have to change some of the key assignments for the LXDE terminal, most notably:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-- HOME = 262 
 
-- CONTROL_a, LXDE/GNOME-terminal: moves cursor to beginning of line 
HOME = 1 
 
-- END = 360 
-- CONTROL_], LXDE/Gnome-terminal: moves cursor to end of line 
END = 29    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Those assignments may seem strange, but you will fine that pressing "CONTROL + ]" and "CONTROL + a" is actually much easier than reaching for the end/home buttons. At any rate the HOME and KEY buttons will not work for ed.ex under most, if not all linux terminals.

You can also download my heavily modified version of ed.ex: edx ,which will not work unless you have installed euphoria directly into your user space/home directory. You can get some ideas and examples of how ed.ex can be modified and "shaped" to your preferences.

Regards, Ken Rhodes

13. Re: Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Jul 15, 2013
• 1955 views

See what I mean

Chris

PS - I also run my eu install from userspace in my home directory - sacrilege I know. But since no one else uses the computer, who cares.

15. Re: Euphoria Linux Installation

• Posted by jaygade Jul 15, 2013
• 1976 views

This isn't sacrilegious, it is entirely appropriate. Especially if you didn't have root access on your machine (which you do, but still).

On my Mac, I just put some somewhat stable eubins into $HOME/bin. I haven't yet installed system-wide because I don't even have "stable-ish" development builds yet.

On my old Linux laptop, I just installed from the .deb so it put Euphoria into /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /usr/share/euphoria. I think that I did a couple of builds into my Dropbox folder.

On Windows Euphoria is installed wherever it gets put. I don't use my Windows box much for stuff other than gaming. I did do a Windows install to my Dropbox folder so that I can run it from my work computer (no admin privileges).

For my development, I've created my repositories on my Dropbox so I can access the source from any machine (even work). I keep build directories there too, but I have them set to be ignored by Dropbox so they aren't cloned to every machine.