From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elvin Peterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: REPL Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:59 +0530 Message-ID: <316f27F3851rlU2@individual.net> References: <30s1jaF34d3v2U1@uni-berlin.de> <30uhl4F34su3sU2@uni-berlin.de> <87wtw5epfz.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101925096 6021 80.91.229.6 (1 Dec 2004 18:18:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 19:18:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CZYmW-0002st-00 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:00:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CZYw1-0006mn-Su for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:10:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net St1bE6DajmNaIKeyIamxdgZrbum6Fexsi6VU5Ls6CfbG6kTlCd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87wtw5epfz.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127070 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22479 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22479 Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > Elvin Peterson writes: > > >>Maciek Pasternacki wrote: >> >>>On Boomtime, The Aftermath 40, 3170 YOLD, Elvin Peterson wrote: >>> >>> >>>>How do I create a REPL for emacs for elisp? >>> >>>Just use lisp-interaction-mode, there you can use C-j to evaluate >>>form >>>before the cursor and result is inserted into the buffer. The initial >>>*scratch* buffer is started in this mode. >>> >> >>That is quite painful to use, especially since I don't get the command >>recall and options to access outputs of previous commands. Something >>like SLIME would be really nice. > > > Yes, some work hard on stuff like ilisp or slime to try to be able to > use other lisp like emacs-lisp, and others are not happy with > emacs-lisp REPL and want the harder lisp REPL... I was thinking more in terms of teaching new users rather than application development. Downloading, installing, and configuring a standalone lisp seems more involved than just running emacs. Thanks for the reply.