Re: How to use Emacs with Scheme without tears and joint pain?

[fft1976 <fft1976@gmail.com>]

On Aug 14, 7:54 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> fft1976 <fft1...@gmail.com> 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.
>

None of the features I asked about. C-x C-e doesn't send the output to
the minibuffer.

> 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.
>

I don't know ELISP, and really don't feel like reading a book about it
and Emacs hacking just to get some basic Scheme development
functionality working.