Does anyone know how to get Wing to run its debug process in an iTerm2 window on Mac OS?

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I tried to follow the advice in Wing's documentation at https://wingware.com/doc/debug/external…, but I have't so far been able to create a working recipe. Since I started to work with textual https://textual.textualize.io/ this has become more important, since it has a fairly intimate relationship with the terminal as a TUI, and a debug console window full of escape codes helps not at all.

Separately, the Forum link format [...](link) seems to be evaporating the links, even though they show up in preview, unless I'm just making some silly mistake.

Steve Holden

asked 2024-05-04 10:26:35 -0600

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updated 2024-05-05 01:16:45 -0600

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I think a shell / Python script similar to the one used for the default macOS Terminal app is needed. Wing wants to launch a new process that will display the terminal and run a command line in it. The script for the default macOS Terminal app is Contents/Resources/resources/osx/run-in-terminal.applescript within the Wing app bundle. You can add new scripts via the External Consoles preference on the Debugger > I/O page of Wing's Preferences dialog.

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:-D In fact I didn't find even the macOS Terminal installable from my own knowledge, so rather than keep bothering people I decided instead simply to run the programs in an external window and have them call into Wing for debugging. That's working beautifully.

updated 2024-05-07 11:14:42 -0600

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The macOS Terminal should work out of the box by selecting the option to use an external console in preference.

Wingware Support (2024-05-07 17:04:48 -0600) edit

Thanks for your reply. I'm sure it would work perfectly well, but unfortunately during my incautious stabbings around I appear to have erased it, and I'm loathe to reset everything to factory to get it back - is there a more selective way, please, that my imagination has failed to conjure up?

Steve Holden (2024-05-08 03:06:11 -0600) edit

Looks like the default command line for this for the Debugger > I/O > External Consoles preference is:

${WINGHOME}/resources/osx/run-in-terminal.applescript

Wingware Support (2024-05-08 05:03:02 -0600) edit

Thanks - that does indeed work!

Steve Holden (2024-05-08 05:36:24 -0600) edit

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