language-dickinson: A language for generative literature

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Dickinson is a language for generative (random) literature


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zstd

Use zstd to compress saved REPL states

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Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Versions [RSS] 0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.1.0, 0.1.1.1, 0.1.1.2, 0.1.2.0, 1.0.0.0, 1.0.0.1, 1.1.0.0, 1.1.0.1, 1.1.0.2, 1.1.0.3, 1.2.0.0, 1.3.0.0, 1.3.0.1, 1.3.0.2, 1.3.0.3, 1.3.0.4, 1.4.0.0, 1.4.1.0, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.1.2, 1.4.2.0, 1.4.3.0
Change log CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies array, base (>=4.9 && <5), binary (>=0.8.4.0), bytestring, composition-prelude (>=2.0.0.0), containers, deepseq, directory, filepath, haskeline (>=0.8), language-dickinson, microlens, microlens-mtl, mtl, optparse-applicative, prettyprinter (>=1.7.0), random, semigroups, split, template-haskell, text (>=1.0.0.0), transformers, zstd [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright: (c) 2020 Vanessa McHale
Author Vanessa McHale
Maintainer vamchale@gmail.com
Category Language, Text, Compilers/Interpreters
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/vmchale/dickinson
Uploaded by vmchale at 2020-11-25T04:14:18Z
Distributions NixOS:1.4.3.0
Executables emd
Downloads 5226 total (69 in the last 30 days)
Rating 2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by Bayesian average]
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Readme for language-dickinson-1.4.1.0

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Dickinson

Dickinson is a text-generation language.

Installation

Binary Releases

Binaries for some platforms are available on the releases page.

Unpack the distribution, then:

make install

Script

There is an install script which will try to download the right release for your computer:


curl -sSl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vmchale/dickinson/master/bash/install.sh | sh -s

Source

To install, get cabal-install and GHC. Then:

cabal install language-dickinson

Manpages are installed at

emd man

So man $(emd man) will pull them up in bash, for instance.

Editor Integration

Editor integration is available for vim.

Using vim-plug:

Plug 'vmchale/dickinson' , { 'rtp' : 'vim' }

Documentation

A user guide is available in markdown and as a pdf.

See man/emd.1 for man pages.

Examples

A riff on the Unix fortune program is available here. Try

emd run examples/fortune.dck

Other examples are in the examples directory.