Swi emacs / eclipse pdt config on osx

General
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Hello,

I started using osx and installed eclipse and PDT but was not able to figure out how to configure the command line settings so that a prolog process can be started …

Also, “vanilla” swi prolog when started has no menu to start the graphic editor – as a fall back option would love to know how to get emacs working with graphci debugger.

thanks!

Dan

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Are you using an old version? I thought lacking menus was fixes some time ago, but possibly only in the swipl-devel series. Otherwise, you can run

?- init_win_menus.

To run the GUI debugger, use

?- gtrace, my_buggy_goal(....).

To edit using the built-in editor, normally use edit/1, where Something is the name of a predicate, module, file (base) name and a lot more.

?- edit(Something).

Note that on MacOS you need XQuartz installed and started for using the GUI tools. Hopefully that will not be needed any more in due time. See Future of XPCE

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thank you.

the menus appeared, but now i need to readup/figure how to get quarts installed and stated.

Any thoughts on how to set up the command line settings for PDT … wha tis the path and OS path to swipl-win.exe equivalent

thanks!