https://gist.github.com/typoman/1180765bc0ef06432d4640f41604acc9

Thanks a million!

@frederik,
small offtopic: maybe it would be nice to put our gist links ( @bahman’s, @StephenNixon’s and mine ) directly or as the how-to guides to the robofont online documentation? I don't know
I've been looking for a similar solution like these for a while on robofont website before.

see also Editing the documentation if you wish to submit changes directly.

I hope it’s all correct, please double check when you can. thanks!

https://gist.github.com/RafalBuchner/1eeec1105b5eb15215a8a7c9e7790fab

On Version 3.3b (build 1910091627) if I call $ echo "print('hello')" > /tmp/foo.py && roboFont -p /tmp/foo.py I’m seeing nothing either in RoboFont’s output window, in the shell nor in ~/Library/Application\ Support/RoboFont/robofont-3-py3.log

I do wonder if RoboFont can somehow be configured to redirect stdout and stderr to the shell when in remote scripting mode. Perhaps optionally behind a command line switch, so if people prefer output in the Output window, they can still get that?

there is no option to send output back to the remote terminal window...

1. in the terminal app I'm going to the dir, where the log file is being stored
2. I'm typing this: tail -f -n 100 robofont-3-py3.log

I'm not a pro-UNIX-terminal-user, but this command displays the last 100 lines of the chosen text file. This particular command tracks for every change in the file.

I'm wondering how to get rid of the left 'time' section of the *.log file. It takes to much space on the terminal and sometimes causes poor text wrapping. In general, the biggest issue of this is poor wrapping (maybe there is a way to make it better?)

What is cool about this 'tailing', the terminal console won't crash along with RF. So if you are working on some crashy-crashy script/extension/font, the output text won't disappear when suddenly your RF dies (you don't have to waste additional time with opening logfile in the external code editor, as I did before).

1. open two windows in my terminal
2. setup tailing in one
3. use robot font shell commands in the second

It looks like this:

With this I think it wouldn't be too hard to create python script for the console, that would create something more like "python console".

alias robofontOutput="tail -f -n 100 ~/Library/Application\ Support/RoboFont/robofont-3-py3.log | sed 's/>   OUTPUT > ROBOFONT >>/>>>/; s/                     >>/>>/'"

Cheers