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1. Pyro Users Manual

Users Manual for Pyro

First, let's look at the command-line options for starting Pyro. You start Pyro by entering:

 % pyrobot

Pyro optionally can take the following command-line arguments:

  -h                 show this help
  -r ROBOT           name of robot.py file to load
  -b BRAIN           name of brain.py file to load
  -a ARGUMENTS       user args; available as string engine.args
  -s SIMULATOR       name of simulator to run
  -i CONFIGFILE      name of config file to load
  -w WORLDFILE       name of simulator world to load
  -d DEVICE[,...]    names of devices (files or names)
  -e "string"        eval string of commands
                     that are ; separated

Where ROBOT is the name of a Pyro robot file, BRAIN is the name of a Pyro brain file, and GUI is either tty, or tk.

To automatically find the BRAIN and ROBOT files, they must be in your current directory or in the $PYROBOT/plugins/ directory. You don't need to add the .py after a filename, if it has such an extension. Order of the flags and options does not matter. Here's a full example:

% pyro -r Player6665 -b BBWander -s Stage -w tutorial.world -g tty

If you are using Pyro over a slow network, or on a slow computer with no graphics, see PyroRemotely.

For more information on the -i flag, see PyroSetUp.

1.1. Changing Editor

Pyro use emacs as the default editor, but you can change that. Do this:

% export EDITOR=gedit

and then start Pyro. It will use the gedit program as the editor. To use a console editor, such as vi:

%export EDITOR="gnome-terminal -e vi"

You can place any console program after the -e.