From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to use Emacs with Scheme without tears and joint pain? Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:54:05 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ws5523ea.fsf@galatea.local> References: <8fd63270-83b7-45de-a474-73b65d52ed94@v37g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250307656 5059 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2009 03:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 05:40:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1McA8O-0007uO-C9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37880 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McA8N-0007jS-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Hw2lEMp2tMay9/aMBuOlQQ6+CgbbuwvhE62YxMg/yXqq9yGygC Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZWZlN2I3ZmZlY2JmZmVjNTU5OGZlZWQ3NDAxNDU0NDE4Njk3M2I3Yg== sha1:7ETz2RHwBqMgoG05llAMus0nEZM= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu comp.lang.scheme:82208 gnu.emacs.help:171983 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67154 Archived-At: fft1976 writes: > I tried to use Emacs as suggested in the Gambit manual, and I also > tried the > Quack mode. Either I'm not using them right, or they just don't > provide the functionality I need. I'm not looking for something as > advanced as SLIME necessarily (which AFAIK only works with Scheme48), > but at least something like what you get with ELISP: > > When you are editing a file, and eval an expression to the REPL, you > get an answer in the minibuffer (which should temporarily expand if > necessary) Also, if there is an error, you get a kind of pop-up window > that's easy to dismiss and get to the top level of the REPL. I don't > get these with Quack or Gambit mode. > > How do you make this work with Emacs? Commercial IDEs ruined this for > me. Apart from the popup window, inferior-lisp provides the minimal needed features. With C-x C-e I'm happy. Then you could take the port of swank to scheme48, and adapt it to the schemes you use, so you could take advantage of slime. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__