Use Julia with Notepad++ and AutoHotkey - julia

In practice I prefer to write R codes with Notepad++ and NppToR, where you can use the default shortcut keys to achieve the following functions:
F8: Pass line or selection
Shift+F8: Pass to point of cursor (from the very beginning)
Ctrl +F8: Pass entire file at once
Ctrl+Shift+F8: Pass by source (i.e., source("C:/Users/lenovo/Desktop/yourRcode.r"))
It is said that Julia is as simple as R or Python, but much faster than the latter two, almost as fast as C or Fortran. Thus, I try to use Julia to write codes.
According to julia-NotepadPlusPlus, we can use Julia with Notepad++ and AutoHotkey, where one can achieve the following goals:
Win-F12 -> Start Julia
Left_Shift-Enter -> Evaluate current line
Right_Shift-Enter -> Evaluate selected block
I want to write a NppToJulia.ahk file to link Notepad++ and Julia, achieving the functions as the R-NpptoR-Notepad++ way:
F8: Pass line or selection
Shift+F8: Pass to point of cursor (from the very beginning)
Ctrl +F8: Pass entire file at once
Ctrl+Shift+F8: Pass by source (i.e., include("C:/Users/lenovo/Desktop/yourJuliaCode.jl"))
As I know nothing about AutoHotkey, can anyone give me some hints?

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How can I map frama-c CLI code to the original c statement? And how can I find the documentation of the api of the frama-c?

I'm trying to get the program dependence graph (PDG) using frama-c at the original code's statement level. However, 'pdg' plug-in in frama-c prints the PDG at the parsed code's node level.
Since frama-c-gui can highlight the original statement corresponds to the node in the parsed code, I'm pretty sure that there is a mapping between the node in parsed code and the original code's statement. How can I get this mapping? Just the line number at the original code is fine, too.
Frama-C's GUI presents two views of the code:
The CIL code (C Intermediate Language), often called normalized source code, which corresponds to a pretty-printing of Frama's AST, in the top center panel;
And the original source code, on the top right panel.
I'm assuming that by parsed code you are talking about the CIL (normalized) code.
Every element in Frama-C's AST contains a location, which is a pair of positions: the first and last coordinates (line, row, column) in the original code which correspond to that element (minus a few exceptions, such as generated elements, macro expansions, etc). Most AST elements have ways to retrieve that location.
In the case of PDG nodes, you can get the associated statements (if any) and then print their location, as in the code below (run with frama-c -pdg -load-module print_pdg.ml <file>):
(* print_pdg.ml *)
let () = Db.Main.extend (fun () ->
Globals.Functions.iter (fun kf ->
let pdg = !Db.Pdg.get kf in
!Db.Pdg.iter_nodes (fun n ->
match PdgTypes.Node.stmt n with
| None -> ()
| Some st ->
Format.printf "%a: %a#."
Printer.pp_location (Cil_datatype.Stmt.loc st) Printer.pp_stmt st
) pdg
)
)
Note that my example script will print each statement multiple times, if there are multiple PDG nodes associated to the same statement.
By default, Printer.pp_location only prints the file name and line of the starting character, but you can make a custom pretty-printer to include the column as well, or the coordinates of the last character.
API and Plug-in Documentation (from question in comment)
Some Frama-C plug-ins (Eva, WP, E-ACSL, etc.) have their own manuals, which are available in the Frama-C download page.
There is no specific manual for the Pdg plug-in, but some Ocamldoc-generated HTML pages can be obtained from the Frama-C API archive.
However, what most Frama-C plug-in developers prefer is to use the OCaml Merlin plug-in in their favorite editor (emacs, vim, etc) to navigate the code and read the source comments (in the .mli files, for instance).
On Emacs, for instance, C-c C-l on a module/variable name jumps to its definition, and C-c C-a alternates between .ml and .mli files (implementation - documentation). Combined with auto-completion for module/function discovery, this provides a form of interactive documentation that many OCaml developers are comfortable with.

How to easily check the implementation of embeded functions in Julia language?

In Matlab, it is possible to check how (most?) of the embeded functions are implemented by typing edit function_name. The mentioned command open function_name code in editor.
I wonder if there's similar way in Julia language (for example how Cholesky's method has been implemented)?
Yes, there's the #edit macro call. You have to pass it a function call (not the function name) as it will open the right method.
Example:
#edit "a" * "string"
opens the file /base/strings/basic.jl in line:
(*)(s1::AbstractString, ss::AbstractString...) = string(s1, ss...)
while
#edit 1 * 2
opens the file /base/int.jl in line:
(*)(x::T, y::T) where {T<:BitInteger} = mul_int(x, y)
To change the editor used, you can customize the environment variable "EDITOR". Example:
ENV["EDITOR"] = "nano"
There is also the macro #less to print the function

How can one really create a process using Unix.create_process in OCaml?

I have tried
let _ = Unix.create_process "ls" [||] Unix.stdin Unix.stdout Unix.stderr
in utop, it will crash the whole thing.
If I write that into a .ml and compile and run, it will crash the terminal and my ubuntu will throw a system error.
But why?
The right way to call it is:
let pid = Unix.create_process "ls" [|"ls"|] Unix.stdin Unix.stdout Unix.stderr
The first element of the array must be the "command" name.
On some systems /bin/ls is a link to some bigger executable that will look at argv.(0) to know how to behave (c.f. Busybox); so you really need to provide that info.
(You see more often that with /usr/bin/vi which is now on many systems a sym-link to vim).
Unix.create_process actually calls fork and the does an execvpe, which itself calls the execv primitive (in the OCaml C implementation of the Unix module).
That function then calls cstringvect (a helper function in the C side of the module implementation), which translates the arg parameters into an array of C string, with last entry set to NULL. However, execve and the like expect by convention (see the execve(2) linux man page) the first entry of that array to be the name of the program:
argv is an array of argument strings passed to the new program. By
convention, the first of these strings should contain the filename
associated with the file being executed.
That first entry (or rather, the copy it receives) can actually be changed by the program receiving these args, and is displayed by ls, top, etc.

Customizing the ESS environment for R

I am trying to optimize my ESS - R environment. So far I make use of the r-autoyas, I set intendation and stuff following style guides, in the mini-buffer there are eldoc hints for function arguments, and I have the option to press a key in order to find information about variable at point (more here).
Are there any other things you use in order to have a nice R environment? Maybe non-ESS people have some nice things to add (I got that info of variable at point from looking at an Eclipser). One example could be an easy way to insert "just-before-defined" variables without typing the variable name (should be something for that?).
(Please help me to change the question instead of "closing" the thread if it is not well formulated)
I am not using autoyas as I find auto-complete integration a better approach.
Insertion of previously defined symbols is a general emacs functionality called 'dabbrev-expand' and is bound to M-/. I have this in my .emacs to make it complete on full symbols:
(setq dabbrev-abbrev-char-regexp "\\sw\\|\\s_\\|s.")
(setq dabbrev-case-fold-search t)
Another thing which I use extensively is imenu-based-jump-to-symbol-definition. It offers similar functionality to emacs tags, but just for open buffers in the same mode as the current buffer. It also uses IDO for queries:
Put imenu-anywhere.el into your emacs load path and add this:
(require 'imenu-anywhere)
(global-set-key [?\M-o] 'imenu-anywhere)
Now, if I do M-o foo RET emacs jumps to the function/class/method/generic definition of 'foo' as long as 'foo' is defined in one of the open buffers. This of course works whenever a mode defines imenu-tags. ESS defines those, so you should not need to add more.
There is also somewhere a collection of R-yas templates. I didn't get around to starting using them but my guess is that it's a pretty efficient template insertion mechanism.
[edit] Activate tracebug:
(setq ess-use-tracebug t)

VIM: Bijection between VIM Taglist elements and code snippets?

My Taglist in a C code:
macro
|| MIN_LEN
|| MAX_ITERATIONS
||- typedef
|| cell
|| source_cell
||- variable
|| len_given
Taglist elements (domain):
A = {MIN_LEN, MAX_ITERATIONS, cell, source_cell, len_given}
Code snippets (codomain):
B = {"code_MIN_LEN", "code_MAX_ITERATIONS", ..., "code_len_given"}
Goal: to have bijection between the sets A and B.
Example: I want to remove any element in A, such as the MIN_LEN, from A and B by removing either its element in A or B.
Question: Is there a way to quarantee a bijection between A and B so that a change either in A or in B results in a change in the other set?
I strongly doubt you can do that. The taglist plugin uses ctags to collect the symbols in your code and display them in a lateral split. The lateral split contains readonly information (if you try to work on that window, vim tells you that modifiable is off for that buffer).
What you want to achieve would imply quite complex parsing of the source code you are modifying. Even a simple task like automatic renaming (assuming you modify a function name entry in the taglist buffer and all the instances in your source are updated) requires pretty complex parsing, which is beyond the ctags features or taglist itself. Deleting and keeping everything in sync with a bijective relationship is even more complex. Suppose you have a printf line where you use a macro you want to remove. What should happen to that line? should the whole line disappear, or just the macro (in that case, the line will probably be syntactically incorrect.
taglist is a nice plugin for browsing your code, but it's unsuited for automatic refactoring (which is what you want to achieve).
Edit: as for the computational complexity, well, the worst case scenario is that you have to scout the whole document at every keystroke, looking for new occurrence of labels that could be integrated, so in this sense you could say it's O(n) at each keystroke. This is of course overkill and the worst method to implement it. I am not aware of the computational complexity of the syntax highlight in vim, (which would be useful to extract tags as well, via proper tokenization), but I would estimate it very low, and very limited in the amount of parsed data (you are unlikely to have large constructs to parse to extract the token and understand its context). In any case, this is not how taglist works. Taglist runs ctags at every vim invocation, it does not parse the document live while you type. This is however done by Eclipse, XCode and KDevelop for example, which also provide tools for automatic or semiautomatic refactoring, and can eventually integrate vim as an editor. If you need these features, you are definitely using the wrong tool.

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