Livecoding with supercollider in spacemace

Let's try livecoding with supercollider in spacemace.

git clone https://github.com/dathinaios/spacemacs-supercollider.git ~/.emacs.d/private/supercollider

ls

Good, layer is in place. The installation assumes that SuperCollider.app is in your Applications directory, let's check

ls /Applications/

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I don't see anything wrong.

Now let's start a supercollider project

cd ~/sandbox/
mkdir spacemacs-supercollider
cd spacemacs-supercollider
touch core.scd

How do I enter the major mode?

ls ~/.emacs.d/private/supercollider/

I don't see anything wrong. I should probably restart emacs

Still not working … I know why! dot file do not have supercollider layer.

(defun dotspacemacs/layers ()
  (setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(supercollider)))

Hit ,RET Works!

Let's see how to play a note in SC:

"Hello World!".postln;

I have no idea where the heck the output went. Maybe try to play a sound:

{ SinOsc.ar(440, 0, 0.2) }.play;
SinOsc.ar(440, 0, 0.2);

No luck.

Look at the buffer, there is an error about the spacemacs_conf.yaml

It appears that the space in Application support folder is creating the issue. fixed that by:

(defun sclang-reset-spacemacs-conf()
  "Reset the library yaml file to defaults. You will have to reinstall
  all your Quarks."
  (interactive)
  (if (y-or-n-p "You will have to re-install all your quarks. Do it?  ")
      (progn
        (defvar dummy-config-file
          "~/.emacs.d/private/supercollider/dummy_conf.yaml")
        (defvar spacemacs-config-file
          "~/.emacs.d/private/supercollider/spacemacs_conf.yaml")
        (delete-file spacemacs-config-file)
        (copy-file dummy-config-file spacemacs-config-file)
        )))
(defun sclang-create-spacemacs-conf-file ()
  (defvar dummy-config-file
    "~/.emacs.d/private/supercollider/dummy_conf.yaml")
 (defvar spacemacs-config-file
   "~/.emacs.d/private/supercollider/spacemacs_conf.yaml")
 (unless (file-exists-p spacemacs-config-file)
   (copy-file dummy-config-file spacemacs-config-file)))

(defun supercollider/init-sclang ()
  (use-package sclang
    :init
    (sclang-create-spacemacs-conf-file)
    :config
    (progn
      (setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") ":/Applications/SuperCollider.app/Contents/MacOS"))
      (setq exec-path (append exec-path '("/Applications/SuperCollider.app/Contents/MacOS" )))
      (setq sclang-library-configuration-file "~/.eamcs.d/private/supercollider/spacemacs_conf.yaml"))))

And most importantly, remove ~/Libray/Application Support/SuperCollider foler! Restart emacs. ,ss starts the server and ,, evals the statement perfectly!

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