Using Gedit for Prolog Development

Question

I'm trying to set up the external tools plugin in Gedit, so that I can hit a button and have a prolog interpreter appear in the bottom pane. The problem I'm having is that the interpreter immediately closes. How can I have the interpreter not terminate as soon as it opens?

Answer 1

You can install gedit-plugins, they include a terminal that can be run on the bottom pane of gedit. You can start Prolog in it as normal.

http://live.gnome.org/GeditPlugins

Answer 2

Thanks for posting this interesting question. I had a gedit window open, working away on a short Prolog program, when I saw your post. You've inspired me to make it work!

Apparently the idea is to use a command gnome-terminal in the bash script to make a terminal session that supports regular user interaction. See the discussion here:

[Gedit External Tools Problem [Solved] -- Ubuntu Forums]
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=936852

I'll give it a try myself...