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Hi,
My name is Jacob Oury and I'm a doctoral candidate advised by Frank Ritter (an original Dismal dev!) and I'm trying to get Dismal working on the latest version of EMACS. I've found a few issues, and I'm hoping you could provide some advice. I'll describe them
below.
- I believe Dismal V1.5 is missing a key file for running dismal. Per the description, the package should include a file called dismal-mode-defaults.el, however this is not available in the elpa.gnu package repo. I was able to work around this issue by acquiring
a previous version of Dismal from my advisor and manually loading that file. Without that, I am unsure if I could get this package running. Per the Git records at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/log/?h=externals/dismal,
it looks like that file was deleted in update below. I think this may have broken the package and I'm hoping to find out why that file was deleted.
General cleanup for GNU ELPA
- Once I got the defaults loaded, I also am running into issues during testing (dis-test-dismal). It initially runs, however, the test fails when trying to insert a simple math equation into a cell:
dis-edit-cell-plain((+ 2 3))
While running the test, the process fails with the message: "dismal-set-cell-internals: Symbol’s value as variable is void: index". I believe this may be due to some effect of the outdated heaps.el package, however Frank's version of Dismal (Dismal V1.4 running
on Emacs 25.X, on MacOS) runs fine. I'm using a Windows computer so that could play a role. When tracing the test through the debugger, it fails immediately following a call to heap-empty with the info shown below. I'm still figuring out the debugger, and
I don't have a more thorough printout of the trace at the moment.
Debugger entered--entering a function:
* command-error-default-function((void-variable index) "" dismal-set-cell-internals)
recursive-edit()
;;Debugger cleared most of its text once the void variable error occurs, so the excerpts from immediately before the error are below this line and the output from the debugger is above.
* heap-empty([dismal-address-compare 1 0 [nil]])
* heap-member((3 . 0) [dismal-address-compare 1 0 [nil]])
* dismal-invalidate-cell((3 . 0))
* dismal-set-cell-internals(3 0 (+ 2 3) nil)
* dismal-set-cell(3 0 (+ 2 3) nil)
* dismal-edit-cell((+ 2 3) nil)
I'm an EMACS novice (I generally work on the experimental cognitive psychology side of things while my labmates are more focused on using ACT-R for cognitive models), and so I may have made some missteps here, but I've been working with Frank during some debugging
and still not having any luck so I'd appreciate any and all help you could provide on these issues. Thanks so much!
Best regards,
Jacob D. Oury
Doctoral Candidate in Informatics
Applied Cognitive Science Lab
Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
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